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Nan Advanced Technical College, the most sacred holy place in China, and this wholesale place with many talents, brings a large number of scientific and technological elites to all walks of life in China every year. However, here, unlike basic high schools and junior high schools, there is not a military training here every year, but only once at the beginning of the school year. Now at the beginning of the new semester, the playground of this holy place has no sports figures and voices of the students in the past, and replaced by neat queues and commands.

"Bao Xiaoran, the squad leader of the second row and squad 3, came out!" Following the instructor's order, Bao Xiaoran took a step forward and ran to the instructor.

"Today, the second-row class 3 training was excellent. Today's training honor was awarded to the second-row class 3! Congratulations!" The instructor handed a red flag to Bao Xiaoran in front of him. Bao Xiaoran saluted him and took the red flag. There was also some gauze-wrapped right palm that made everyone's new eyelids dance with the dancing of his right hand.

"Today's training ends here and is disbanded!" The instructor's words made the students feel relieved. Although these weeks of training are conducted every year in junior high school and high school, as they grow older, the difficulty, intensity and harshness of the training are getting higher and higher.

"Today's excellent training class is in Class 2, Route 3, and I've been possessed by evil spirits! They have been there for five consecutive days!" A student complained with some dissatisfaction, beside him, classmates who were about to disperse.

"There is no way. Who told me to suddenly see a late freshman? This freshman is still a soldier who just retreated from the front line." A student beside him said helplessly and enviously.

"No, right... it's a fool?"

"Who is fooling you? Did you see the person who went up to get the red flag just now? That person is the soldier I just mentioned."

"It's the person who lacks three fingers on his right hand? I don't believe it..."

"Don't believe it! I heard from my senior in the same building that the injury on his hand was caught by the Soviets at that time. The Soviet Union's Russians smashed the ground with a hammer. What do you think? He resisted and said nothing. Finally, his comrades arrived in time to rescue him. He heard from the people in the same building that he killed six Russian soldiers on the front line..."

"Really?"

"Of course..."

As the students' rumors spread, the excellent training class monitor, which suddenly appeared after a few days of military training, took everyone's attention to Bao Xiaoran. The injuries on his hands, like his source and his stories in the army, became a hot topic for students to talk to in the school; and Bao Xiaoran, as the person involved, also deeply felt this alternative attention and the constant gaze of his side.

Bao Xiaoran, who returned to the dormitory, did not go to take a shower because, for him who had been in the army for several years, the amount of training today was not even as strong as when he was in the army. Moreover, because the wound was not easy to soak in water, he was so happy that he would not take personal hygiene and seize the time to read and prepare more things to learn.

"Brother Bao, you are reading books again. How many days will the Qingming Festival holiday be after the military training next week? What are you going to do?" The chief of the shepherd was washing his clothes while asking Bao Xiaoran to read books at the desk.

Because he was late and the dormitory of his class was already full, Bao Xiaoran was assigned to the dormitory of the old student. After meeting Bao Xiaoran's identity as a disabled soldier hero, although some classmates in the class were willing to change the heroes in their class to go back, how could these old students miss the opportunity to listen to the battle heroes telling the war scenes every night before going to bed? The old senior's score was put out and firmly denied the request of the juniors. However, although everyone is a peer, Bao Xiaoran respectfully calls him Brother Bao because of his outstanding status in the hearts of his roommates.

"There is no way. Although I had some free time to read books when I was in the army, I was so tired every day that I was half tired and couldn't read much. While I hadn't attended the main class, I had to make up for some of the things I had forgotten before and preview the content of the main class." Bao Xiaoran did not look up, but answered his roommates while reading the book.

"Will you read books when you have those days off?"

“There is a plan like this.

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"Hehe, I see that your plan is difficult to complete." The shepherd said with a smirk while rubbing his clothes.

"Why?" Bao Xiaoran put down the book in his hand and asked in confusion as she looked at the shepherd.

"Your identity has spread among tens of thousands of people in the school. You are the most popular in this school now. I didn't see how the students stared at you when I went to the cafeteria to make a meal. Not only them, but even the aunt who served the rice would like to stuff two more pieces of meat into your bowl!" The sheriff said excitedly, waving his hands with soap foam, without any mind, shaping the foam on his face.

"I said why I always feel the portion is very large recently..."

"Hehe, this is not the most important thing, do you know that some female classmates are already asking about you through us..." She Chang's smile was a little ambiguous, and it looked even more ridiculous with the soap bubbles on his face.

"What does this matter to me..." Bao Xiaoran turned his head a little bit. He didn't want the bubbles that leaned over to touch him.

"Hehe, do you know that our college had a rule more than 20 years ago?"

"What rules?" Bao Xiaoran was a little puzzled.

"Hehe, that's what the commander-in-chief has decided before. Students in the Advanced Technical College need to participate in social welfare labor during the day when they do not return home during traditional holidays, like sweeping the streets

These jobs are used to replace social workers who work every day to go home for the festival. You must participate in group activities."

"Is there such a rule?" Bao Xiaoran looked surprised. He could not have imagined that China's supreme leader would have set this rule more than 20 years ago.

"Yes! Article 12, Paragraph 3 of the school rules. The commander-in-chief requires all those who stay in school to participate in collective activities. You must know that you are now a newly-recent celebrity in our school, and those girls will...

The first sentence of the shepherd chief was very sure, because this was a social practice experience project formulated by Commander-in-Chief Duan Guoxue more than 20 years ago. This practical life made many students know about the daily life of ordinary sanitation workers in the sun and rain on weekdays. The last sentence was also very sure, but in this affirmative tone, Bao Xiaoran felt the shepherd chief’s yy.

"Get out! Don't be so naughty!" Bao Xiaoran smiled and scolded the head of the house in yyy.

"Don't be reluctant! You will definitely be the focus of those girls by then. This treatment has made us yearn for and envious!! You will definitely be so busy these days that you can't even read books!" The chief of staff said seriously and affirmatively that Bao Xiaoran put down the book, took out a map album from the bookshelf and started to read it.

Sure enough, before the military training the next day, the director announced to all freshmen about participating in social practice activities during the holiday. After the military training in the afternoon, Bao Xiaoran came to the office of the grade counselor. After ten minutes of conversation, Bao Xiaoran determined what he had to do.

On the night after the military training, Bao Xiaoran packed up two pieces of changing clothes alone, bought some food from the school store, carried a marching bag to the truck station. With his military uniform that he had not yet unloaded, his chest medals and his hand disability, Bao Xiaoran easily took a truck heading towards Liuzhou for free, and entered the boundary of Liuzhou overnight.

"Brother, our car has to go north, so we can only take you here. From here to west, follow this mechanized farming road to reach the place you want to go." In the early morning, at dawn that day, the driver woke up and talked about the battlefield story for a night. Bao Xiaoran, who had just slept for a while.

"Thank you! This is the fare." Bao Xiaoran took out two dollars from his pocket and handed them to the driver and the owner.

"What are you doing!! I can't charge you money for the military uniform and medal of merit on you. I know that you are in the army have three major disciplines and eight points of attention, but I am here to take someone along the way. Second, you told us a story all night, and no matter what, it is worth the travel expenses. If you do this, you won't consider us friends..." After that, the driver hung up the gear and recharged the gas throttle and left in a flash of dust.

"It's great to be a soldier..." Looking at the truck that was leaving, Bao Xiaoran put on his bags and asked the fellow villager who had just come out to drive the mountain to work and confirmed the direction he was going to go forward along the mountain road that had just been dug out. He wanted to go there to fulfill his long-cherished wish.

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On the other side of the ocean, a country that had just recovered from the Great Depression, US President Roosevelt was sitting in the conference room with his staff, listening to the report of a newly established department.

"Hello, gentlemen here. First of all, I thank you for giving us valuable time to share our research results. Here I would like to introduce our Rand Company. During the Great Depression, General Henry Nord, the commander of the Army Air Force, proposed an idea about "Analysis of the Stimulus Recovery Effect of War After the Depression". For this reason, a group of scientists from various industries such as economy, physics, chemistry, aviation, and machinery participated in the "Rand Plan" work at that time. They cross-argued each other and came up with a lot of good suggestions and development plans. I believe that everyone here has dealt with us. After the 1940s, we broke away from the government's funding and established a special Rand Company and became a top research institution that objectively analyzes between officials and the people."

"Okay, the self-introduction is over. We are here to report to you by the President and everyone's analysis of China. First of all, our overall conclusion about China is that China will become a more difficult opponent than Japan and Germany."

The words of Mitchellsson, the speaker in charge of the report, made many of the people present feel a little disturbed.

"Please be quiet. I will continue to explain to you."

"First of all, we want to explain to you that the current Chinese government leaders are very mysterious. They do not appear too much in political occasions, but are more immersed in his offices and laboratories. We evaluate him as a failed politician, but a very dedicated scientist."

"Although Duan Guoxue is mysterious, it has to be said that he has a large number of people under his command, adventurous and pioneering spirit. Judging from all the information we have collected, these people are liberating China from ignorance and poverty, and the entire China is becoming stronger little by little under their leadership. Although they have made some mistakes and have many shortcomings in human rights, law, land, etc., it cannot be denied that they have done a good job so far."

"The above is a conclusion on the effectiveness of their work. The following is a summary of their foreign policy. - This is a dissatisfied and confusing country."

"Their foreign policy is very vague and has no clear position. This can be judged by them from the two major camps in the world that are neutral in the world.

.Their clear non-alignment policy is dissatisfied, but their location and historical reasons are fighting the surrounding Soviet Union and Japan, which is a very contradictory and confusing phenomenon."

"But the most surprising and unsettling thing is that this country has a powerful military force that we have unexpectedly imagined. Since the war against Japan in 1937, this man and his team have surprised all the opponents, and from the weapons and combat level they use, they are full of mysterious places."

"Everyone knows that the individual weapons they use are mainly semi-automatic rifles. Compared with our Garland rifles, the rifles they use are more accurate and stronger. The most amazing thing is that they actually use colloidal shellless launching drugs. From this point of view, their chemical strength cannot be overlooked."

"Now we also know that the tanks that appeared on the European battlefield of the Soviet Union were not the products of the Germans as our British allies judged. These kings of battlefields that were invincible were Chinese products. What's even more ridiculous is that when these tanks fought against Japan in 1937, the Chinese had already put them on the battlefield, but the British John Bulls still did not believe that this was a product produced by the Chinese."

"And we also see from military intelligence that the Chinese now have a large number of submarine troops. Although we cannot accurately know the submarine technical data, we can know that the submarines they equipped are not only larger than the submarines that the Germans cruising on the Atlantic Ocean, but are also definitely advanced than ours. At the same time, they now have two light escort aircraft carriers, and the upturned springboard on the third light aircraft carrier just launched shortly, telling us that this country has a very good scientific design team. Not only that, we can know from the performance of their aircraft that we have no aircraft that is their opponent."

"All of you here are smart people. Knowing how these powerful war weapons have benefits for war is just the last question - will the Chinese have such a strong military force become our future rivals and enemies?"

"Although the military power exposed by the Chinese inadvertently is mysterious, you should also see that this country is still a very poor and backward country. Half of the more than 400 million people still have not yet solved the problem of food and clothing and living in poverty. But we can foresee that as long as this country continues to become stronger like this, will they affect the interests of our United States in the world? Our judgment is - will!"

"The Chinese don't have much trade with us and the world now. Their farmers have always adhered to the system of small peasant economy, but this economic system is now beginning to change. As the reform efforts of the Chinese government increase, more and more factories will be established. When their products begin to impact our sales share in the world, our factories will go bankrupt one by one under the impact of their products.

You can go to the store to take a look, from toys and colored lights on the Christmas tree in the hall, to refrigerators in women's kitchens, air conditioners and TVs in bedrooms, A-brand cars in garages, more and more things are marked on the bottom of the things. Our products are not competitive in the face of their cheap production costs! And you also want to see that the technological content of Chinese products is getting higher and higher, and many products cannot even be produced in our American factories. When these products are sold more and more in our country and the world, this means that ours will face more and more unemployment rates."

“We and their economies are not complementary, and their products have begun to pose a threat to our economies. Although this threat is still small, what about ten, twenty, and thirty years later?”

"China is different from Germany and Japan. It is a country with the same strong potential for war as the Soviet Union. Although their navy is very weak, General MacArthur claimed that as long as he builds the Seventh Fleet again, he can make the surface power of the Chinese navy disappear within three hours. We believe that because the Chinese navy only has such a few surface ships, but what about three months and three years later? There are so many shipyards along the coast of China. They can build marine ships dozens of times larger than they are now in three years. They can easily mobilize a huge number of military forces to fight. Moreover, China is a country with the most complete mineral deposits. From iron ore to coal, from tungsten ore to rare mineral deposits, they can all be found on that land without relying on foreign countries. The oil pumping machines standing on the two large oil fields in Shandong and Manchuria will slap two big mouths by the experts who claim China's oil-poor theory."

"So our conclusion is that China is a more difficult opponent than Japan and Germany, if they really want to become opponents."

Mitchellsson finished his half-hour summary and left the problem to the president and his staff.

"Mr. Mitchellsson, I'll take the initiative to ask, how do you choose?" Roosevelt asked before Mitchellsson left the conference room.

"Mr. President, for such an opponent, you either become mutually beneficial friends with him, or... just stifle him before he grows stronger..."
Chapter completed!