Chapter 133: Preparations for War (1)
When Qin Feng arrived in Xuzhou, when he asked Smith to come to Nanjing in advance, he specially explained several things to Smith, the first of which was to look for a suitable residence in the area of the Xiaomi Branch Bridge on Guangzhou Road, which is close to the location of the Nanjing branch of Siemens in Germany. Smith didn't know why Qin Feng had to live close to Siemens, Qin Feng didn't explain, and Smith thought that Qin Feng liked to be neighbors with Germans.
The second thing Qin Feng explained was to ask Smith to recruit as many Westerners as possible in Nanjing and the surrounding area, and whether it was male or female, as long as it was Western, even if the other party was an alcoholic or some other bad character. The third thing was to contact a printing factory, and the last thing was to contact a shipping company controlled by Westerners, these things were indifferent in Smith's opinion, and only Qin Feng understood what he was doing.
The national army clamored to defend the city of Nanjing, even if it was fought to the last soldier, Qin Feng did not disbelieve in the soldiers and many low-level officers who were fighting, he just couldn't trust the high-level who controlled the army. In the event of a war that was unfavorable, shipping and the safe zones established by Westerners in the city became a lifesaver for many people, and the printing factory would be a propaganda channel for Qin Feng to encourage the people to flee Nanjing.
"There are still 2 months, maybe enough time." For the current war situation, Qin Feng didn't know if the preparations he had made would work, but as a Chinese, he would do his best to help the people in the city survive. The car drove through the crowded streets, and although the people in the streets with melancholy faces knew that the situation was not good, they did not realize the approaching danger, which was exactly what Qin Feng feared.
"Very well, Mr. Smith, it looks like I need to give you a raise." The residence that Smith found was on Guangzhou Road, just a few intersections away from the Xiaomi Bridge, and Qin Feng could even see the roof of Hans's residence when he stood on the platform on the roof. Qin Feng went to such great lengths to ask Smith to arrange his residence in the area of the Xiaomi Branch Bridge on Guangzhou Road, in order to be neighbors with Siemens' branch in Nanjing, and also to use Smith's nationality to get to know Hans, the manager of Siemens in Nanjing, earlier.
In later generations, Qin Feng once visited Nanjing as a training pacesetter, especially to receive patriotic education, and visited the Nanjing Massacre site, which made Qin Feng remember not only the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing, but also Hans, a German who can be called a humanitarian fighter. After the Japanese army broke through Nanjing, his residence in Nanjing, No. 1, Xiaomi Branch Bridge, Guangzhou Road, Nanjing, was one of the 25 international security zones for refugees in the Nanjing Security Zone, protecting more than 6,000 refugees.
As the chairman of the Nanjing International Security Zone, Hans, together with other international friends, worked with the International Committee of the Nanjing Security Zone to save the lives of more than 250,000 Chinese in the less than 4 square kilometers of the zone under his responsibility. On New Year's Day 1938, the refugees at the refugee camp were in John? In the courtyard of Hans's mansion, they lined up to bow to Hans and offer him a piece of red silk with the inscription "You are a living bodhisattva of hundreds of thousands of people." In February of the same year, Hans left Nanjing, and the International Committee of the Nanjing Security Zone spoke highly of Hans, and the Chinese Nationalist Government awarded Hans the Order of the Three-Colored Jade.
Hans, who was respected by the citizens of Nanjing, was not an ordinary German, in fact, Hans was also a member of the German Nazi Party, and it is precisely because of this that after the end of World War II, Hans was arrested by the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. But in Qin Feng's heart, he didn't care whether Hans was a member of the Nazi Party or not, as a German, he could tell the Japanese army to exert pressure to help those Chinese refugees who had nothing to do with him under such circumstances, which was enough to prove Hans's personality. If possible, Qin Feng still wants to use this to change Hans's fate in the future, and good people should be rewarded.
"How's the manpower I've asked you to recruit?" After seeing the situation in the residence, Qin Feng, who sat down in the study, asked him about other arrangements for Smith. Without the slightest hesitation, Smith took out a file bag from the wall cabinet in the study, opened the file bag, took out a stack of documents and photos from it and handed it to Qin Feng.
"Nanjing is not as good as Shanghai and Tianjin, there are not many foreigners here, although our recruitment conditions are not very high, but I only recruited 32 people. Of the 32 people, there were 5 retired American veterans who came to China to try their luck, 16 bankrupt Jews, and 5 guys from Italy, and the rest were all Germans. As he spoke, Smith sorted the photos on the table into several piles according to their different nationalities, so that Qin Feng could identify the people in the photos.
When Smith talked about the Jews, there was a slight change in his tone, Qin Feng did not look up or interrupt Smith, he knew that the contradictions between Germans and Jews could not be explained in a few words. In order not to make it difficult for Smith, Qin Feng helped Smith make a decision, "That's okay, give each of those Jews two oceans, let them leave, as for what has been sent to them, forget it." ”
Smith naturally didn't say anything about Qin Feng's decision, in fact, these guys recruited by Smith had only been together for a few days, and this gave each of them 2 yuan, which can be regarded as the fastest job to get money. "Later, I'll give you some more money to let those Americans go to the black market to buy some automatic weapons, submachine guns and pistols, and if there is chaos in the city, our people will rely on these things to protect our homes." Hearing Qin Feng say that he wanted to purchase arms, Smith agreed without raising his head, this goods were not good men and women in the first place, so he naturally knew the priorities.
After chatting with Smith in the study for a while, the two walked out of the study and came to the hall, where Smith arranged for the foreigners who were left behind to meet Qin Feng. It didn't take much effort, 16 foreigners of men and women appeared in front of Qin Feng, and Qin Feng, who hadn't seen those photos at all, didn't know that there were actually a few women among these people recruited by Smith. When the three women introduced themselves as retired soldiers from the United States, Qin Feng suddenly remembered the strange look on Smith's face when he said that he wanted the four Americans to purchase arms.
Thinking of this, Qin Feng quietly glared at Smith, but the latter pretended to chat with those fellow Americans, ignoring Qin Feng's eyes and anger at all. The three retired female soldiers were no longer in Qin Feng's plan, but after hearing the other three say that they were all nurses and had received a certain amount of military training, Qin Feng's face improved. "Ms. Angel, I wonder why the three of you are coming to China? I don't think nurses are veterans. ”
Before the American woman who was asked by Qin Feng could speak, she first gave Qin Feng a roll of her eyes, and then said with a smile, "Boss, just like you can speak fluent English, it's no secret that we came to China." In fact, we were invited to China by a Swiss businessman who unfortunately went bankrupt in Shanghai, so we had to earn a living from what we had learned in the army. ”