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According to Roosevelt's words: "The more stable Northeast China is, the easier it will be for the United States to advance into Japan, so we will not allow any unstable factors in Northeast China, not even the Soviet Union!" ”

Roosevelt was telling the truth, because his negotiations with the Soviet Union quickly changed from hoping that the Soviet Union would send troops to asking the Soviet Union not to interfere in the Chinese army's battle with the Japanese army in the northeast.

Roosevelt also put it beautifully: "We had hoped that the Soviet side would work with the Chinese troops to drive the Japanese out of Chinese soil in the light of the overall situation, but the Soviet Union did not agree, and not only did not agree, but also put forward a series of unacceptable demands...... Now, we only hope that the USSR will not meddle in this matter! ”

Another meaning of this sentence is "You ignore me yesterday, and you can't afford to climb me today!" ”

Roosevelt even laughed happily after saying this, and through this incident, he can be said to have further enhanced the international prestige of the United States and even himself, which is also crucial for his election next year.

The three generator sets were not delivered to Jilin until more than 20 days later...... This is already quite fast, mainly because the United States is more than 10,000 kilometers away from China, and the speed of the victory ship is only 17 knots, and it takes 16 days to transport it by sea alone.

The three generator sets were accompanied by a total of 200 technicians and engineers...... Technicians are here to install the generator sets and put them into use, and engineers are here to guide the construction of the hydropower plant that has not yet been completed.

Zhang Chi warmly received the technicians and engineers in this line, and at the same time immediately searched for relevant talents everywhere in the Northeast and arranged them to study with these technicians...... Zhang Chi knows very well that the society in the future is not just about people, but more importantly, technology, science and technology are the primary productive forces.

The leader of the technicians was an old professor named Smith, and after he led the people to inspect the Fengman Hydropower Station, he frowned and said to Zhang Chi: "Colonel, this hydropower station is even bigger than we imagined, with the current situation...... It's not a big problem to restore the power supply, but if you want to continue the construction, ......"

"What, what's the problem?"

"Construction problems!" Smith pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose and put the collar of his padded shirt up, he was a little unaccustomed to the cold of minus ten degrees in the northeast.

"It takes a lot of machinery!" Smith continued: "Otherwise, a lot of manpower will be needed!" ”

"How much manpower does it take?" Zhang Chi asked.

"Wait......" Smith spread out the drawings and looked at them, then calculated on the scratch paper, and replied, "The preliminary estimate is that if it is done by manpower, it will take at least 30,000 people!" ”

"Well, no problem!"

Smith looked at Zhang Chi with some incredulity, and said, "Colonel, this is 30,000 people, and it's still high-intensity work...... I've heard that you've just fought a big battle, and I'm afraid you don't have so many materials to pay the workers! ”

Smith was right, Northeast China had just been recovered from the Japanese, and the currency of the puppet state of Manchukuo, the Manchukuo yuan, had become waste paper, and before the new currency was established, more of what could be used to pay workers' salaries was in kind, especially food.

"We don't need to pay our workers much!" Zhang Chi replied: "Because ...... We have 70,000 Japanese prisoners in our hands! ”

Smith's face changed when he heard this, and he said, "Colonel, I have to remind you that this does not seem to be in accordance with the Geneva Conventions, and you must treat the prisoners well......"

"Hmm!" Zhang Chi nodded and said, "Professor, please bring your people with me!" ”

Smith was a little confused, but under Zhang Chi's arrangement, he took the technicians and engineers to follow Zhang Chi's jeep out of the hydropower station in a mighty car.

Within ten minutes the car stopped, and everyone could smell a foul smell in the air before they could get out of the car.

When I got out of the car, everyone exclaimed...... It turned out that there was a natural ditch more than 100 meters long, six meters wide, and four meters deep on the side of the road, which was full of corpses, at least thousands, some of which had rotted into white bones, and some of which were still hung with rotting flesh.

"Professor!" Zhang Chi said to Smith: "The Fengman Hydropower Station started in 1937, and it has been under construction for six years now, and the civil works have been completed by 89 percent, and you know...... The Japanese also have little machinery and equipment, so how do the Japanese carry out the construction? ”

Smith obviously didn't think about this, and couldn't help but look at Zhang Chi with wide eyes.

"Look at the bunkers, barbed wire, and fences around it!" Zhang Chi said: "These are not built by us, they are left by the Japanese...... On your way here, you must have passed a barracks area where Chinese laborers were imprisoned, and guess how many Chinese laborers the Japanese used to build this hydropower station? ”

Smith's face was full of shock, and he shook his head slightly in disbelief.

"I'm telling you, 110,000!" Zhang Chi continued: "In the past six years, the Japanese army has recruited a total of 110,000 Chinese laborers, and they told them that they can 'eat and live well and pay a lot of wages. They have to work more than ten hours a day, and tens of thousands of people work at the same time every day, they don't have clothes to cover their bodies and food, and when we rescued them, we found that they were wrapped in clothes to keep out the cold and were used in broken sacks for construction, and many of them were even teenagers......"

"It's not true!"

"Of course it's true!" Zhang Chi said: "Look at this mass grave in front of you, where Chinese laborers have been abused to death...... The Japanese didn't even bother to bury them, they just threw them into the ditch on the side of the road! ”

Smith looked incredulously at the foul-smelling ditch, and then at Zhang Chi.

"It's all true!" Zhang Chi nodded: "And I can tell you that this is just one of them, there are three such ditches we have found, if you want, I can take you one by one!" ”

"No, not anymore!" Smith replied with a pale face: "I believe that those Japanese must be willing to help us build a hydropower station!" ”