Wang Mingshan never expected that after the Democracy Foundation he led achieved results in Hungary, the first telegram from the relevant domestic units was from Qi Rui, the Political Commissar of the North American Theater of Operations.
Because he had undertaken the work of helping comrade Wei Kun progress for a period of time, Wang Mingshan had an indescribable feeling towards Qi Rui, who was known as the most favored son of Military Governor Vaize. After reading Qi Rui's telegram, Wang Mingshan's impression of Qi Rui immediately improved. Qi Rui suggested that while the weather was cold enough, the Hungarian Red Army should be vaccinated against a variety of common infectious diseases. Wang Mingshan found that he had forgotten this important matter.
Vaccines were biological products, and they needed to be stored and transported carefully. Before the Hungarian Revolution really began to succeed, Wang Mingshan did not know when the Hungarian revolutionaries would succeed, so he naturally could not solve this problem here. Now that the Hungarian Revolution had begun to enter a rapid stage, improving the combat effectiveness of the soldiers was the key.
In the North American War, the Min dynasty troops and the people in North America were all vaccinated against smallpox, plague, tetanus, typhoid, cholera, meningitis, and other vaccines. These epidemic prevention troops ran in the blood vessels of the soldiers and people, so that people would not get sick in those barren mountains. The US Army, on the other hand, did not have such treatment. Uncontrollable epidemics often broke out in the war, which greatly affected the combat effectiveness of the US Army.
After receiving Qi Rui's effective suggestion, Wang Mingshan immediately followed it. He ordered all the vaccine production plants in East Africa to immediately start work, work overtime to produce vaccines, and quickly send them to the soldiers and people in the liberated areas in Hungary.
Qi Rui did not care whether Wang Mingshan would listen to his advice or not. He only put forward his own suggestion according to the rules. What Qi Rui cared about was the issue of the Military Commission sending 500 consultants. Five hundred excellent consultants was also a very unpleasant thing for the Min dynasty with two million troops. If it was a peaceful operation, not to mention 500, even five thousand consultants would not be a problem. Hungary was now at war, and five hundred people would face death after being sent. Qi Rui felt very unhappy in his heart. Most importantly, the comrades who volunteered in the army did not receive high evaluations. Many of them were seen as busybodies.
During the meeting, Qi Rui had no choice but to say, "I know that everyone doesn't want to see their favorite comrades put themselves in danger again. Promotions are important, but human lives are more important than promotions. Hungary is not our motherland. It is great to fight for Hungary's liberation, but not to the point of risking our lives. But if the Central Committee demands it, we have no choice but to obey. I hope everyone can find someone qualified. "
The comrades of the military region's party committee shared the same thoughts as Qi Rui. They had all experienced war and did not take it lightly. After a while, the division chief in charge of combat training knew he had to say something. He asked, "Compared to the Americans, who is better in terms of training?"
"Our comrade in Hungary said that it's probably higher in the US," Qi Rui replied. After saying this, Qi Rui saw that the negative emotions in the conference room were rising rapidly.
Fortunately, the division chief of combat training was in his forties and had a lot of experience. He replied helplessly, "Then we don't have to find motorized infantry. Instead, we'll draw people from the pre-war infantry school instructors. The technology they have is most suitable for Hungary. "
This was immediately agreed by the North American Military Command. The simple infantry and cavalry tactics were most suitable for Hungary's current situation. The North American Military Command's understanding of war had already broken away from the old-fashioned concept of war. After having a common view, Qi Rui immediately sent a telegram to the Central Committee to explain the North American Military Command's views.
The Central Committee had not been under pressure from the war recently, but the Hungarian Revolution had aroused a lot of interest. When the telegram from the North American Military Command arrived, the comrades of the Central Committee were immediately unhappy. The North American Military Command's reasons were very good, but the Central Committee found the conclusion inexplicable. Sending comrades who did not understand modern warfare to Hungary was akin to selling junk. Didn't the bastards of the North American Military Command claim that they had the best understanding of war? Didn't these guys claim to be able to fight a good war even without trucks?
Of course, the old guys of the Military Commission could understand what these bastards were thinking. Just at the beginning of 1898, the consultants sent by the Liberation Army to Nicaragua and other countries came back. In order to deal with the American invading army, the Liberation Army sent thousands of consultants to several Caribbean countries. More than 300 people were killed or injured in a few years, but the North American Military Command did not even make a sound. The comrades of the North American Military Command were enthusiastic and agreed on dealing with the United States, but when it came to helping Hungary, which they could only find on a map, the enthusiasm of the young comrades disappeared. Everyone felt that they were the most important. In fact, when the old guys of the Military Commission confirmed that the Military Governor Vaize wanted to implement a peaceful foreign policy, everyone had a similar feeling. Since the Min dynasty adopted a peaceful policy, the lives and deaths of foreigners had nothing to do with the Min dynasty.
In the end, the members of the Military Commission also gave up. They handed the situation over to the Military Governor Vaize, who presided over the three meetings. After reading the report from the Military Commission, Vézé really wanted to snort. But Vézé did not do so.
From 1775 to 1875, the life of the people of China had been very hard. The "Kang and Qian Dynasties" that only existed in the boast had people rebelled every year. After that, the population of China reached and surpassed the peak of land and productivity burden in China at that time. The people's lives were getting worse every year. In 1875, the Min dynasty began to migrate in large numbers to the South China Sea, the Northeast China Sea, and North America. Coupled with the state-led food supply system, the per capita food supply in the Asian part of China continued to increase. From 1875 to 1895, the war and expansion of the Min dynasty never stopped for a day. After peace came, this kind of compensatory reaction was not surprising.
Finally, Vézé gave instructions. "Assisting the Hungarian Revolution is an important part of promoting the social revolutionary movement. Maybe the Hungarian Revolution will not succeed in the future, but the Restoration Party, as a party that believes in Marxism, can't look back and think that it would have been better if it had worked harder. "
The instructions were quickly sent back to the North American Military Command. On New Year's Day 1899, Qi Rui chose to read the instructions of the Military Governor Vaize to everyone at the New Year's Day tea party. It had to be said that this reason made everyone dumbfounded. The word "recovery" was an absolutely Chinese word. It meant to recapture what had been owned by the ancestors. In other words, even if they crossed tens of thousands of miles by sea to North America, and then ran tens of thousands of kilometers from Alaska in the northwest corner of North America to Florida in the southeast corner, it was still a family matter.
However, when it came to Marxism, it was not a family matter, but an internationalism. Even if everyone would grumble and grumble, they would not really refuse to let this group of young soldiers bleed and die for their families. However, everyone was really unhappy to let everyone bleed and die for an "internationalism."
It was just that no one dared to question or oppose the biggest parent of the Min dynasty, the commander-in-chief. After some grumbling, the comrades of the North American Military Command finally expressed that they would obey the commander-in-chief's orders. From beginning to end, except for the words "internationalism" that appeared in the instructions read by Qi Rui, the other comrades basically did not use this word.
The 500 comrades arrived in Cyprus on January 27, 1899, and arrived in Budapest on February 8. At this time, the streets of Budapest were already waving red flags, which finally made the comrades of the Liberation Army feel a sense of familiarity. Those colorful foreign flags that were not mainly red only gave everyone a strange feeling.
Zhou Shuren, who was in charge of political work, felt the same as everyone else, but he looked left and right, and there was a kind of enthusiasm in it. This young soldier, who had a height of more than 163 meters with great difficulty, almost failed to become a soldier because of his height. The recruitment standard of the Min dynasty had reached the minimum of 168 meters, but in reality, it had reached the level of 172 meters. Fortunately, he was talented and intelligent. He went to college at the age of 12 and graduated from the Medical University at the age of 17. During his college years, he published many popular articles in the story club, reader, monthly novel, and other magazines under the pen name Lu Xun. In the end, he was recruited into the army as an exception. In the end, when everyone was unwilling to go to Hungary, Zhou Shuren, who loved Pei Duofei's poetry, was able to go to Pei Duofei's hometown.
In Zhou Shuren's opinion, Budapest was quite beautiful. The pure white snow and Jiangnan style each had their own advantages. It was not until Zhou Shuren saw the overly exaggerated standing posture of the Hungarian Red Army, who were practicing, that he immediately felt that something was wrong. The Liberation Army had a "disapproving" attitude toward any exaggerated and flashy things. Exaggerated standing posture meant misleading athletic ability and combat readiness. It took too long to change from this posture to the combat state. On the battlefield, the slightest delay could cost people their lives.
After spending a few days with the Red Army, the party committee held a meeting and decided that everyone should go to the front line and start training from squad and platoon leaders. The standard of the Austro-Hungarian army was too bad. The troops had to line up straight when charging. This alone made the Liberation Army dumbfounded. After questioning the comrades of the Red Army and quickly interrogating the captured middle and senior officials, the advisory group came to a conclusion. The Austro-Hungarian military training department thought that this kind of training was the most militaristic and the most convenient to implement.
Zhou Shuren only participated in the training for a few days before he was transferred to the publicity department. Because he loved Pei Duofei's poetry, Zhou Shuren took linguistics as an elective in college. English, French, Latin, and Hungarian. He passed the CET-6 exams in these four languages. The reason why he was sent to Hungary was that there were no more than ten people in the North American Liberation Army who had passed CET-6 in Hungarian.
Zhou Shuren spent two days reading the propaganda manuscript of "The socialist system is good, it's good" and found the person in charge of the consultant group. He went straight to the point and expressed his opinion, "I want to take over the propaganda work in Hungary."
The person in charge looked down at Zhou Shuren. The meaning of his words was too clear, and it was difficult to misunderstand. Therefore, the person in charge's voice was full of doubt. "You want to be the Minister of the Hungarian Publicity Department?"
"At least I can be on par with this." Zhou Shuren's voice had the spirit of a young man.
"Why?" The person in charge of the advisory group was no longer surprised.
"When I was writing, I saw a lot of propaganda. I found that our party's initial propaganda was the same as this. It was all about defeating XX and living a new life. After the land distribution began, there were many targeted propaganda contents and various plays for life after the distribution. All of this was not aimed at the urban class, but at the peasant class. The quality of these plays is another matter, but all of them are telling the people what happened. I think this is the essence of propaganda. Let everyone know the good and evil in the eyes of the revolutionary government, let everyone know what they can get under the revolutionary government. However, the Hungarian comrades don't seem to have this concept at all. "Zhou Shuren blurted out his thoughts in one breath.
Zhou Shuren could see that the person in charge of the advisory group did not have this concept, but he seemed to understand what Zhou Shuren said. The person in charge of the advisory group could not help but frown. After a while, he said, "Do you think you can undertake such an important task?"
Hearing this, Zhou Shuren, who was already standing very straight, straightened his back. He replied loudly, "I think I can!"
After staring at Zhou Shuren for a while, the person in charge could not help but sigh. "Sigh … Go back and prepare according to your ideas. We will inform you later."
Looking at Zhou Shuren walking away quickly, the person in charge sighed again. He opened his notebook and jotted down a few things. As a leading cadre, taking notes was one of the methods taught to him by the organization. This was not just a problem of a good memory being inferior to a bad pen. Most of the judgments could not be satisfactory, let alone correct. Giving the comrades who had the courage to apply for the task a chance was relatively less likely to mess things up. Although Zhou Shuren was young, he did leave a deep impression on the person in charge.
There was a summary meeting every day. After raising other issues at the meeting, the person in charge casually made a suggestion about the establishment of a propaganda department. Unexpectedly, the Hungarian Communist Party immediately expressed the hope that the comrades of the Restoration Party could help, because the Hungarian Communist Party knew nothing about how to carry out cultural propaganda, and there were different opinions about what to promote. The comrades who participated in the revolution were all workers and peasants. Most of the Hungarian intellectuals looked down on these poor people. Even if a few were willing to join, they would ask for leadership positions in those departments with real power. The Red Army hated this kind of people. In the eyes of these Hungarian comrades, the comrades of the Restoration Party were educated and experienced, and would probably be able to do propaganda work well.
They did not expect things to go so smoothly. The person in charge wanted to observe Zhou Shuren again, but on second thought, he felt that it was unnecessary. The Hungarian Red Army was facing an extremely unfavorable situation, and the troops had to focus all their energy on the war. If Zhou Shuren did well, he would naturally do well. Even if he did not do well, he would not necessarily fail earlier than the revolution. So the next day, Zhou Shuren was informed that he was now the Deputy Minister of the Hungarian Red Army's Propaganda Department and acting Minister.
Zhou Shuren's first order after taking office was to "organize the masses to learn The Internationale in all the areas under control." The Propaganda Department worked overtime to print the lyrics and music sheets of The Internationale with a calendar and distribute them in the controlled areas.
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