The international war in 1942 was changing rapidly.
The Soviet Union has ended its winter offensive and has once again shifted to a defensive state. Japan is arrogant in Southeast Asia. The Southeast Asian colonial armies of the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Netherlands continue to surrender. The Japanese army has thus won a complete victory in the Southern Front Campaign.
At the same time, due to the harassment by the Communist Party troops behind enemy lines and the volunteer army, the Japanese army began to implement the "Three Guangs Policy" in the occupied areas of North China.
Facing the unfavorable situation in the early stages of the Pacific War, the United States dispatched a bomber formation to launch the "Doolittle Raid" against Japan. Sixteen land-based bombers took off directly from the aircraft carrier and attacked 10 military bases in Yokohama, Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya and other places.
Industrial targets were bombed.
Although the effect of this bombing was minimal, the impact was very large.
After the news of the U.S. air strikes on Japan came out, both China and the United States were elated. However, the Japanese government's prestige in the minds of the people was shaken, and Japanese people increasingly doubted the government's ability to win the war.
The Japanese Army immediately passed the blame to the Navy, which had no choice but to transfer the aircraft carrier formation back to the mainland from the Indian Ocean. It was very frustrating for the Navy. In the Indian Ocean, they could make meritorious deeds, but when defending in their own waters, they could only watch others make meritorious deeds.
As a result, Yamamoto Isoroku shouted the slogan "As long as the U.S. Pacific Fleet is not eliminated, the empire will never be at peace" and resolutely launched the "Battle of Midway". In this battle, the Japanese navy suffered heavy losses and became the two main forces between the United States and Japan.
A turning point in the balance of naval power between the two countries.
Since the outbreak of the Pacific War at the end of last year, the legal currency has devalued like never before. Japan has thrown the legal currency from the occupied areas to the Kuomintang-controlled and liberated areas, mixed with a large amount of counterfeit currency. While earning a large amount of materials, it has also seriously impacted the finance of the non-occupied areas.
market.
The liberated areas had to ban legal currency and use "anti-currency" issued by the Communist Party instead. The Nationalist government chose another way to retaliate by printing counterfeit banknotes and counterfeiting the fake.
This matter was personally planned and executed by Dai Li, who obtained the banknote printing plates of the Japanese and puppet banks through the traitor Zhou Fohai, and then contacted the U.S. banknote printing factory through Song Ziwen to imitate them. These counterfeit currencies were all "China Reserve Notes" issued by the Wang puppet government and were printed by the United States.
After being copied by the factory, they were quickly shipped back to Chongqing, where they were specially used to grab supplies in occupied areas and bribe traitors.
However, these counterfeit banknotes were quickly discovered, not because they were printed too fake, but because they were printed too real.
The counterfeit government banknotes imitated by the United States are actually more like real banknotes than real banknotes due to their fine paper and exquisite printing. People can spot the difference at a glance.
As a last resort, Dai Li could only set up a counterfeit banknote factory in Geleshan, Chongqing, and finally eliminated the shortcomings of printing counterfeit banknotes that were too real. Although the Wang puppet government severely cracked down on counterfeit banknotes, there was no way. By the time the Anti-Japanese War was won, every thousand yuan "
One yuan of "China Reserve Bank Notes" is a counterfeit currency printed by Dai Li.
Coincidentally, the Japanese and puppets are also frantically producing counterfeit banknotes in the Kuomintang-controlled areas and liberated areas. However, the "anti-money" issued by the Communist Party is rougher and even has some rough edges. The "anti-money" produced by the Japanese and puppets is also more real than the real thing...
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At the end of May, Zhou Weilie successfully passed the high school graduation exam.
Zhou Hexuan and Zhang Leyi had a month-long dispute over their son's choice of school, and finally had to let their son make his own decision. Zhang Leyi tried to persuade him all day long, but Zhou Hexuan didn't say a word and threw Hua Luogeng's paper directly to his son.
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There is no suspense, Zhou Weilie chose Southwest Associated University.
Since there was not enough time, Zhou Hexuan could only ask Sun Yonghao to take Wei Lie by plane to Kunming. 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 canceled the unified examination and implemented a joint admissions area system instead. There are only two universities in Kunming District. Southwest Associated University serves as the convening school, and the examination location is also located at Southwest Associated University. Registration, propositions and marking are handled by Footsteps and
There are regulations, but the specific operations are decided by the examination district itself.
Things are much better now. The college entrance examination questions before the Anti-Japanese War were really tricky. For example, in the National Beiyang Institute of Technology's independent proposition in 1933, the first question in the first session was an essay. The title was: Chang Kaishen did not resist Japan.
Song Ziwen borrowed money heavily in Europe and the United States. Let's try to describe the facts and comment on it.
After arriving in Kunming, Sun Yonghao first took his young master to choose a hotel in the city, and then went to the office of Southwest Associated University to register. The deadline was approaching, and there were not many students registering for the exam, so he went in directly without queuing.
The person in charge of registration was a middle-aged man. He glanced at Sun Yonghao and Zhou Weilie and said, "Please show relevant documents."
Sun Yonghao quickly took out his ID and said, "This is my young master's high school diploma."
The middle-aged man casually picked up the diploma and looked through it. He was obviously stunned for a moment and asked, "The child just turned 12 years old?"
Zhou Weilie said: "I am 12 years and three months old, which is 13 years old. Also, I am not a child, you can call me classmate Zhou."
"Okay, classmate Zhou," the middle-aged man said curiously, "are you sure you can get into college?"
Zhou Weilie said: "I want to study at Southwest Associated University, I like mathematics, and I want to be Professor Hua Luogeng's student."
"If you are ambitious, I wish you good luck in the exam." The middle-aged man took out a registration form and asked Zhou Weilie to fill it out.
I stayed in Kunming for a few more days and finally waited until the exam officially started.
Perhaps because of the good food and being forced to exercise daily, Zhou Weilie has grown very fast in the past two years and is already over 1.5 meters tall, which is very rare in the Republic of China where malnutrition is common. He walked into the examination room alone, and did not attract much attention.
attention, because there are candidates shorter than him.
Check the admission ticket, enter the venue, issue papers, and start the exam.
First, let me explain that there are four sets of examination papers at Southwest Associated University at this time.
The subjects are slightly different and are divided into "Grammar Group" and "Science and Engineering Group", which are liberal arts and science branch examinations. On this basis, they are divided into rear area examination papers and occupied area examination papers. The occupied area examination papers are simpler, in order to reflect the
Care for students in enemy-occupied areas.
Zhou Weilie took the science paper in the rear area. Mathematics, physics and chemistry were more difficult, while literature and history were relatively easy.
The first subject, Chinese language.
The first question, composition: Describe the most profound impression in childhood.
Zhou Weilie did not start doing the questions directly. Instead, he browsed through all the questions and then came back to write the essay. This guy didn't even type a draft, he just started working on the test paper. He wrote about what his father brought with him when he first moved to Chongqing.
The brothers and sisters were fishing on the river. In the end, they came to the conclusion that everything has laws, which need to be discovered and mastered carefully, and they should also be used for advice. Anyone may know more than you.
The second question is classical Chinese translation style.
It means translating classical Chinese into vernacular, and you also need to segment the sentences yourself, because the article given has no punctuation. This question is not bad, Zhou Weilie roughly understood it, and the translation was accurate.
The third question is genre translation into classical Chinese.
Well, translating vernacular into classical Chinese is Zhou Weilie's super weak point. He worked hard for a long time and finally completed the translation. God only knows how many points he got. Fortunately, this was a science paper, and the liberal arts paper would have driven him crazy.
No, that's all. There are only three questions in the Chinese language exam.
Seven courses were tested for three days in total, including history and geography, which together gave a perfect score of 100.