The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China - Chapter 1013

  The international war in 1942 was changing rapidly.

   The Soviet Union has ended its winter offensive and is on the defensive again. Japan was arrogant in Southeast Asia, and the Southeast Asian colonial troops of Britain, the United States and the Netherlands continued to surrender, and the Japanese army won the battle on the southern front.

   At the same time, due to the harassment of the Communist Party behind enemy lines and the volunteer army, the Japanese army began to implement the “Three Lights Policy” in the occupied areas of North China.

  The United States, facing the unfavorable situation in the early stage of the Pacific War, sent a bomber formation to launch a “Doolittle Air Raid” against Japan. Sixteen land-based bombers took off directly from the aircraft carrier and bombed 10 military-industrial targets in Yokohama, Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya and other places.

  Although the bombing effect this time was minimal, the impact was huge.

   After the news of the US airstrike on Japan came out, both China and the US rejoiced. However, the prestige of the Japanese government in the eyes of the people has been shaken, and the Japanese people are increasingly questioning whether the government is capable of winning the war.

  The Japanese army immediately threw the pot to the navy, and the navy had no choice but to transfer the aircraft carrier formation from the Indian Ocean back to the mainland. It is very depressing for the navy. They can make contributions in the Indian Ocean, but they can only watch others make contributions in the defense of their own waters.

   So, Yamamoto fifty-six shouted the slogan “If the US Pacific Fleet is not dismantled for a day, the empire will not be peaceful for a day”, and resolutely launched the “Battle of Midway”. This battle, the Japanese navy suffered heavy losses, became a turning point in the balance of naval power between the United States and Japan.

   Since the outbreak of the Pacific War at the end of last year, the fiat currency has experienced an unprecedented depreciation. Japan threw the fiat currency from the occupied areas to the national-controlled areas and the liberated areas, which mixed a lot of counterfeit currency. While earning a lot of materials, it also seriously impacted the financial market in the non-occupied areas.

  The liberated area had to ban legal currency and use the “anti-coin” issued by the Communist Party, and the National Government chose another way to retaliate – printing counterfeit money, and counterfeiting with fakes.

   This matter was planned and executed by Dai Li himself. He obtained the banknote printing version of the Japanese puppet bank through the traitor Zhou Fohai, and then contacted the US banknote printing factory through Song Ziwen to imitate it. These counterfeit coins are all “Central Reserve Notes” issued by the Wang puppet government. They were imitated by the US banknote printing factory and soon returned to Chongqing. They were specially used to **** money and bribe traitors in the occupied areas.

   However, these counterfeit banknotes were quickly discovered, not because they were too fake, but because they were too real.

  The counterfeit banknotes of the Wang counterfeit government imitated by the United States are more like real banknotes than real banknotes because of their fine paper and exquisite printing, and people can see the difference at a glance.

  As a last resort, Dai Li could only set up a counterfeit banknote factory in Geleshan, Chongqing, and finally put an end to the shortcomings of printing too real counterfeit banknotes. Although the Wang puppet government severely cracked down on counterfeit banknotes, there was absolutely no way to do it. By the time of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, one yuan of every thousand yuan of “Central Reserve Notes” would be counterfeit money printed by Dai Li.

   Coincidentally, the Japanese and puppet parties are also frantically producing counterfeit banknotes in the Kuomintang-controlled and liberated areas. But the “anti-coins” issued by the Communist Party are rougher, and even have some rough edges, and the “anti-coins” made by the Japanese and fake ones are also more real than the real ones…

   At the end of May, Zhou Weilie successfully passed the high school graduation examination.

   Zhou Hexuan and Zhang Leyi had a month-long dispute over their son’s school choice, and finally had to let his son make the decision. Zhang Leyi tried to persuade him all day, but Zhou Hexuan threw Hua Luogeng’s paper directly to his son without saying a word.

   There is no suspense, Zhou Weilie chose the Southwest Associated University.

  Because there was not enough time, Zhou Hexuan could only ask Sun Yonghao to take Weilie to Kunming by plane. Zhang Leyi also wanted to follow, but unfortunately she was pregnant, and it was impossible for her to run around at home.

   This year’s college entrance examination has cancelled the unified entrance examination and implemented the joint admissions district system. There are only two universities in Kunming District, and the Southwest United University is the convening school, and the examination site is also located in the Southwest United University. Registration, proposition and marking are stipulated by the Ministry of Education, but the specific operation is determined by the examination area itself.

   is much better now, the college entrance exam questions before the Anti-Japanese War were really tricky. For example, in the 1933 National Beiyang Institute of Technology’s independent proposition, the first topic of the first session was an essay, and the title was: Chang Kaishen did not resist Japan, Song Ziwen borrowed money from Europe and the United States, and tried to state the facts and comment on it.

After    came to Kunming, Sun Yonghao took the young master to choose a hotel in the city, and then went to the office of the Southwest Associated University to sign up. The deadline was approaching today, and there were not many students who signed up for the exam, so they went straight in without queuing up.

   The person in charge of the registration was a middle-aged man. He glanced at Sun Yonghao and Zhou Weilie and said, “Please show the relevant documents.”

  Sun Yonghao quickly took out his certificate and said, “This is my young master’s high school graduation certificate.”

  The middle-aged man picked up his graduation certificate and flipped through it. He was obviously stunned for a moment and asked, “The child just turned 12?”

   Zhou Weilie said: “12 years and three months old, 13 years old. Also, I’m not a child, you can call me classmate Zhou.”

   “Okay, classmate Zhou,” the middle-aged man said rather curiously, “are you sure you will be admitted to university?”

   Zhou Weilie said: “I want to study at Southwest Associated University, I like mathematics, and I want to be a student of Professor Hua Luogeng.”

   “Have ambition, I wish you a successful exam.” The middle-aged man took out a registration form and asked Zhou Weilie to fill it out himself.

   After staying in Kunming for a few days, I finally waited for the official exam.

   Maybe it was because he had good food and was forced to exercise daily. In the past two years, Zhou Weilie has grown very fast, and has exceeded 1.5 meters, which is very rare in the Republic of China where malnutrition is common. He walked into the examination room alone, and didn’t attract much attention, because there were candidates who were shorter than him.

   Check the admission ticket, enter the venue, issue the paper, and start the test.

   First, let me explain that the Southwest Associated University has four sets of examination papers at this time.

  The subjects are slightly different, and they are divided into “Grammar Group” and “Science and Technology Group”, that is, arts and sciences sub-examination. On this basis, it is divided into the exam paper in the rear area and the exam paper in the occupied area. The exam paper in the occupied area is simpler, in order to reflect the concern for the students in the enemy-occupied area.

   Zhou Weilie’s exam is the science paper in the rear area, which is more difficult in mathematics, physics and chemistry, and relatively simple in literature and history.

  The first subject, Chinese.

  The first question, composition: describe the most profound impression of childhood.

   Zhou Weilie didn’t start doing the questions directly, but browsed through all the questions, and then came back to write the essay. This kid didn’t even type the draft, he just started it on the test paper. When he first moved to Chongqing, his father took his brothers and sisters to fish on the river. Finally, it is concluded that there are laws in everything, which requires careful discovery and mastery, and at the same time have the courage to ask for advice. Anyone may know more than you.

   Question 2, Classical Chinese translation style.

   is to translate classical Chinese into vernacular, and you also need to segment your own sentences, because the given article has no punctuation. This question is not bad, Zhou Weilie has roughly understood it, and the translation is inseparable.

  The third question, style translation of classical Chinese.

   Well, translating vernacular into classical Chinese is Zhou Weilie’s super weak point. He fiddled for a long time and finally finished the translation, and only God knows how many points he can get. Fortunately, this is the science volume, and the liberal arts volume must drive him crazy.

   is gone, that’s all, there are only three questions in the Chinese test.

  The seven subjects were tested for three days in total. Among them, history and geography were tested together, and the two subjects of history and geography added up to a full score of 100 points. Physics and Chemistry are only one subject, optional.