Rebirth of the Wild Age

Song Weiyang was telling a joke when he said that the guerrillas turned into a field army by doing business.

The real situation is that after the great victory of the Japanese army in Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, the rear was empty, with no soldiers, no food, and lack of ammunition, and was forced to abandon some unimportant sites.

However, the Kuomintang and Communist forces behind enemy lines took the opportunity to recover the lost ground and wreak havoc on the transportation and supply lines, which directly paralyzed the Japanese army's logistics. The national army's troops behind enemy lines were still relatively stable, while the counterattacks of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army went crazy, and even began to attack relatively weakly defended counties, and seized a large amount of equipment from the puppet army—all kinds of puppet troops surrendered. .

Until 1945, that is, the second half of The Devil Is Coming, the Japanese army in North China could only shrink to important strongholds. In many small counties close to the Eighth Road site, the Japanese troops stationed there did not dare to leave the city. They can only collect food through the puppet army, and the puppet army is too lazy to go to the countryside to grab food. They directly sell weapons and medicines in exchange for border tickets, and then use the border ticket to buy food from the Eighth Road, and get some kickbacks by the way (squinting smile).

Although both Jiang Wen and Ma Wei were children of the big courtyard and had been exposed to the history of the war since childhood, it was the first time they had heard many of the information Song Weiyang said. For example, the content of the Japanese and puppet rural cooperatives mentioned by Song Weiyang comes from Development and Looting——The Economic Control of Japan and Benzene in the Occupied Areas of North China and Central China during the War of Resistance Against Japan. This book was first printed in 1998. It was written after consulting a large number of documents in Japan. Moreover, they are rarely seen in bookstores, even pirated copies are scarce, and the sales are extremely miserable. Song Weiyang still borrowed them from the Fudan Library.

Ma Weidu has always been quick-spoken, Jiang Wen is also a braggart, Song Weiyang chatted with them in the breakfast shop for half the morning.

Although Jiang Wen stayed up all night editing the film, his eyes were red, but he was very energetic, with a cigarette in his mouth and his legs up. Chatting from the Anti-Japanese War to the present, from domestic to foreign countries, exhaled smoke rings and said: Xiao Song, I read your book The Future Belongs to China, and it was recommended by a friend. I don't know which country the future belongs to, but yours Take a straight stand, unlike many people who worship foreign countries now, nor are they blindly arrogant like many so-called patriots. Chinese, Americans, are all human beings, there are good and bad, good and bad, where is a word Can you make it clear?

That's reasonable, good or bad lies in the individual, not in the country or the ethnic group. Ma Wei all echoed.

But many people are not like this, they are prejudiced, Jiang Wen said with a smile, For example, many Chinese in the United States are short in the southern coastal provinces, so Americans think that we Chinese are short. When Michael Douglas met me when I went to the United States, his first reaction was to be surprised that I was taller than him. In his cognition, Chinese people should be 1.6 meters or 1.7 meters tall.

Song Weiyang said: You should tell him that tall people in China generally don't go abroad, because Chinese airlines charge money based on their height.

Hahahaha! Both Jiang Wen and Ma Wei burst out laughing.

The same is true for Chinese people, Jiang Wen continued. One time I went to Spain to attend a film festival, and I met a Chinese immigrant. The grandson praised how beautiful the bay in Spain is, and said that he would take me to experience it, saying that this kind of scenery It is absolutely impossible to see it in China. I asked him which bays he had been to when he was in China, and he answered me as 'Sun Island'. You see, he has never been to Qingyu or Sanya, so he dared to say that China is not as good as Spain. This is admiration of foreigners and self-importance. There is a hard-core patriot in the circle, I will not mention his name, he will oppose every beauty, and scold every day. The problem is that what he scolds are all hearsay stuff. He never tried to find out the truth, and he didn’t want to see it for himself when he had the opportunity to go abroad. This kind of arrogance has reached the point of being complacent. These are all arrogance and prejudice. I think that no matter how you behave or do things, you must first let go of your arrogance and prejudice .”

It's hard, Song Weiyang shook his head and said, everyone, more or less, has arrogance and prejudice, including you and me, including Lao Ma. Just like this time I asked you to shoot an advertisement, the company called several times, You said less than 5 sentences in total, and you just hung up the phone in the last two times. As a relatively successful boss, I will inevitably have a prejudice. I subconsciously think that Jiang Wen’s grandson is arrogant and shameless. If I hadn't come to the capital in person, I wouldn't have known that you refused because you were upset, and I would have hated you from then on, and thought you were a jerk when I mentioned you. This is a lack of information, a lack of communication with each other, and You said that Americans generally think that Chinese people are short.

Jiang Wen smiled and said: But you came in person. What is prejudice? You don't want to communicate. What is arrogance? You don't want to communicate. Obviously, since you are here, you are a person who can put aside your arrogance and prejudice temporarily.

If I didn't know Lao Ma, I'd be a fart, and I wouldn't even bother to talk to you. I'd go directly to Ge You to shoot an advertisement. Song Weiyang was not polite.

Ma Wei joked, It's dangerous, Old Jiang, you almost offended the second richest man in China.

Hahaha! Jiang Wen laughed.

Song Weiyang said: Many times, it's not that people don't want to communicate or understand, but that they don't have the means and energy.

I'm talking about those who have the means and energy but are unwilling to take a step, Jiang Wendao said. There are so many people like this, and they are very annoying. I don't like dealing with them. I have met many foreign filmmakers, My favorite is Quentin, who can hang out with anyone. When he came to China, he drank and bragged with the students of Nortel on the first day, and talked nonsense with the leaders of the film department on the second day. At that time, there were Many foreign directors put on airs in a daze, but Quentin knew everyone, and within a few minutes he became brothers and sisters with the Chinese leaders. Then you look at the works, Quentin’s works always have multi-national elements, which often make people Refreshing.

Song Weiyang really wanted to ask: Did you teach Quentin that beautiful phrase?

Ma Wei nodded and said: It is necessary to get in touch and communicate more, just like playing with antiques. I used to only collect furniture, and only have research on furniture. I need to keep learning and getting in touch, so that I can gradually understand porcelain, coins, calligraphy and painting. People You can’t be framed in the same place, you have to lower your figure and take a few steps outside.”

Jiang Wen pointed to Song Weiyang and said: Xiao Song is very good, with billions of dollars in assets, and he can sit in a small shop and chat with me. I have met many businessmen, because I am a star, they are polite to me , In fact, I have put on airs from the beginning to the end, and I can't let go at all. I can't let go when I chat with them, I feel awkward, and I feel very comfortable talking to you, Xiao Song. Don't leave today, I will buy you a drink tonight. Now Forget it, I have to go back and catch up on sleep, but I'm so sleepy.

It's easy to say, drink with you at any time. Song Weiyang smiled.

Pretty enough, Jiang Wen got up, yawned, stretched his waist, and said, I'm going back to sleep, let's drink together at night.