"Knock knock ......"

Amid the sound of celebratory gongs and drums, tens of thousands of people in Chongqing were holding a New Year's Day parade.

All organs, schools, and groups set off as a team, and all bands set out collectively. Although the common people were poor, the people who participated in the parade at least prepared a few candles or tied ribbons and red cloths on their bodies.

Western musicians play trumpets and accordions, accompanied by the suona of a Chinese band.

There is a lion dance performance by the Guangdong Association in the back, followed by a dragon dance performance by the Hunan Association. The various industrial and commercial groups followed closely with lanterns, as well as the students of the orphanage and hundreds of boy scouts, marching quickly with immature and majestic steps.

During the eight-year all-out war of resistance, Chongqing held a huge New Year's Day celebration every year.

This is very necessary, the people who have been bombed for a long time are nervous, and they urgently need to have an outlet for their emotions. At this time, the government will also review the achievements made since the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and predict the prospects for the victory of the War of Resistance, so as to stimulate the enthusiasm of the military and the people for the War of Resistance and strengthen the people's determination to resist the war.

In the outdoor radio along the way, Chang Kaishen was making a New Year's speech, and he took the Kunlun Pass victory he had just achieved as the focus of publicity: "...... Just yesterday, during the battle of the heroic and fearless national army, Yu Guinan won another victory on the battlefield! General Du Yuming led the Fifth Army to conquer Kunlun Pass for the third time, annihilating more than 5,000 people of the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Army, and the mortality rate of non-commissioned officers above the squad leader of the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Army was more than 85%, and the commander of the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Army, Nakamura Masao, was killed on the spot...... The victory at Kunlun Pass is only a part of China's successive victories in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and we will achieve even more brilliant victories in the future......"

"The national army wins!"

"Long live the Chinese nation!"

"little Japan!"

Tens of thousands of people shouted with joy on their faces, and the suffering they had suffered for so long was forgotten at this moment.

The New Year's Day parade takes the morning and afternoons are filled with celebrations, one of the most important of which is fundraising. For example, the Boy Scouts played a football match, and all ticket proceeds were donated to war orphans, and donations were donated to Keats homes around the country.

The celebrations of various government agencies and units will last for several days, and schools will hold sports performances, poetry recitals, singing competitions and other activities, and the Chongqing Women's Association will organize a New Year's party for the families of the anti-Japanese soldiers.

While business was booming, the shops did not forget to support the anti-Japanese war, and they sold small goods such as New Year's greeting cards at reduced prices, and all the profits were donated to the country. Non-governmental organizations will also hold anti-Japanese condolence activities, distribute condolences and condolences to the families of soldiers, and help military families write letters to front-line soldiers.

As a big celebrity, Zhou Hexuan receives many invitations to activities on New Year's Day every year, and this year he has received more than ten invitations from the school alone. Although he was not present, the money was enough, and Zhou Hexuan sent someone to donate 1,000 yuan to each organization that invited him. This has led to an increase in the number of units sending him New Year's Day invitations year by year......

Our General Feng Yuxiang was particularly active on the festival day, not only appearing in various event venues like a marquee, but also setting up calligraphy and painting stalls in Beibei for three consecutive days.

Poor people or students ask for calligraphy and paintings, and Feng Yuxiang charges five jiao. If a wealthy person came to ask for calligraphy, he would charge hundreds or thousands of yuan, and most of the funds from selling calligraphy and paintings would be donated to the front.

Regardless of whether it is fame and reputation, at least people are really doing it, and they have really contributed to the War of Resistance.

On New Year's Day this year, Feng Yuxiang created a pair of "Radish" after "Eggplant", with a poem inscribed: "Carrots, honey and sweetness, eat like a tiger." Like a tiger, fight the East! ”

What a simple and unpretentious poem, which perfectly expresses General Feng's patriotic heart...... Well, I can't make it up.

Feng Yuxiang likes to sell calligraphy and paintings, and even gave birth to a group of scalpers. They hire poor people to beg for five cents, and they can make ten times the profit when they change hands - of course, this has to be sold in other cities and counties, and Chongqing can no longer afford to sell it at a high price.

Later, there was a funny joke, one day in 1943, someone claimed to be Tang Shizun's brother and went to visit Feng Yuxiang. The two talked very speculatively, and this guy said very enthusiastically that he was willing to help Feng Yuxiang sell calligraphy and paintings in various places to raise more donations for the anti-Japanese resistance. Feng Yuxiang was overjoyed and handed over hundreds of calligraphy and paintings to this person on the spot, but disappeared without a trace in a blink of an eye.

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A few days after New Year's Day, a former regular customer suddenly came to the Zhou Mansion.

"Mr. Zhou, long time no see." A handsome middle-aged man in a tweed coat smiled.

Zhou Hexuan said in surprise: "Brother Chu, it's really you, what have you been doing all these years?" ”

The person who came was Chu Nanxiang, Chu Yupu's nephew, who said: "After leaving Tianjin, I went to the south. I wanted to join the Communist Party, but I couldn't get in, and I couldn't figure out who the Communist Party was. Later, I went to the United States to study at my own expense, and returned to China six years ago to work as a civil servant in Zhejiang. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was transferred to Hankou, and last year he was transferred to Guizhou, and he was transferred to Chongqing on New Year's Day this year. ”

Zhou Hexuan asked, "What position does Brother Chu hold in the government?" ”

Chu Nanxiang said: "I used to be a junior in the Agricultural Adjustment Committee under the Agriculture and Forestry Section of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and I was sent to Guizhou to carry out agricultural restructuring work. Isn't this the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry going to be upgraded to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry? I did a good job, and I was transferred to the base camp of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to run errands. ”

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "I didn't expect Brother Chu to understand agriculture. ”

"How do I understand agriculture, I have always done administrative work, and the specific affairs are done by professionals," Chu Nanxiang said a few words modestly, and suddenly said, "Brother Zhou, can you give me the most detailed copy of your scientific chicken raising information?" ”

Zhou Hexuan said strangely: "Isn't Brother Chu serving in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry?" It's easy for you to get the information. ”

Chu Nanxiang said with a smile: "The Agricultural Adjustment Committee and the Scientific Chicken Extension Group are parallel units, and the chicken farm has just been built, and no information has been disclosed to the public, and those chicken experts have stayed in the chicken farm all day long and cannot be contacted." ”

Zhou Hexuan had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly asked: "Brother Chu is preparing to send scientific chicken raising technology to Yan'an?" ”

Chu Nanxiang hurriedly denied: "Brother Zhou said that I laughed, I have nothing to do with the Communist Party." I inquired on behalf of a friend who had a little spare money and wanted to do business. ”

Zhou Hexuan was already sure in his heart, and he didn't dwell on it anymore, and said: "Actually, if you don't come to me, you can also send someone to the chicken farm to learn technology after the Spring Festival." In this way, I will tell the teachers and students of the College of Agriculture, and I will give you a complete set of materials in two days. ”

"Thank you!" Chu Nanxiang clenched his fists and said.

There are many communists like Chu Nanxiang lurking in the national government, and the most dazzling of them is Mr. Ji Chaoding.

Chen Guangfu, who went to the United States with Zhou Hexuan to discuss tung oil loans, will soon recruit a right-hand man in the United States. This assistant was Ji Chaoding, who was introduced to Chen Guangfu by Eder, an official of the US Treasury Department, who was friendly with Curie, an aide to Roosevelt, and Bralaud, an aide to US Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, and also served as an adviser to the US Treasury on China policy.

Ji Chaoding's doctoral dissertation in economics was praised by Latmore a few years ago, Chang Kaishen's only American private political adviser: "This is a very convincing argument with original insights, good at independent thinking, and very persuasive." ”

After interviewing Ji Chaoding, Chen Guangfu immediately favored this young man and directly appointed him as the director of general affairs of the global company. The global company is nominally a multinational trading company, but in fact it is an agency for Sino-US loans, and Ji Chaoding's position is the big steward of the global company.

In 1941, Chen Guangfu was ordered to return to China, brought Ji Chaoding back as a personal secretary, and took him to meet Kong Xiangxi. Only then did I know that Ji Chaoding's father was Kong Xiangxi's teacher, and Kong Xiangxi immediately took this fellow villager to live at home, and rose all the way to an important position in the Ministry of Finance, becoming the most important and authoritative economist in the national government.

Ji Chaoding participated in the economic policies of the Nationalist Government in the 40s, and it was not until the founding of New China that everyone found out that he was an old party member - he secretly joined the Communist Party in 1927.

Kuomintang officials, including Kong Xiangxi and Chen Guangfu, were collectively confused, how could this person, who was a doctor of economics in the United States and a talent strongly recommended by the US Treasury Department, suddenly become a Communist Party?

So the bigwigs of the Kuomintang began to shake the pot, and Chen Lifu even accused Ji Chaoding in his memoirs of giving Kong Xiangxi and Song Ziwen bad ideas, and the collapse of China's economy after the war was all done by Ji Chaoding in accordance with the instructions of the Communist Party.

In fact, how can Ji Chaoding be so capable? He only provided the Communist Party with the real core data on the financial and fiscal situation of the Nationalist Government, including a series of policies for issuing gold and silver yuan bills, all of which were carried out by the orders of Kong Song and others.

Zhou Hexuan handed over the scientific chicken raising information to Chu Nanxiang, and within a few days, important people from the Communist Party came to visit - Dong Lao, one of the heads of the Southern Bureau.

This is the highest position of the Communist Party that Zhou Hexuan has come into contact with so far, and the two talked happily and gave each other ink treasures as a souvenir.

At this moment, shocking news came from the Hong Kong "Ta Kung Pao" branch......