Chapter 150: Plans
When Zhao Jingxiang was interviewed by reporters, Wen Hao was at Zhou Yuying's house and was discussing how to blow up the devil's arsenal.
Zhang Songbai inquired about him and was telling everyone, "There is a Matsumoto trading company in the public concession, which is a large-scale trading company, and their president, Matsumoto Nagao, is a family that has been doing business for generations, but I heard that he is not very valued at home, so he came to China to do business in a fit of anger, but I didn't expect him to come to Shanghai, China, which really made him find gold, but he is now the richest person in the Matsumoto family." ”
"Okay, let you inquire about the news, how can it be all useless news?" Hao Dahai said impatiently.
"Yes, what you want to inquire about is where their arms are, what does it have to do with this Matsumoto?" Zhou Yuying glanced at her cousin.
"Of course, it has a relationship, because his trading company is relatively large, and there are many warehouses in the concession, and there are many Japanese employees of their trading company, and the vehicles are requisitioned by the Japanese military department to transport and carry arms." Zhang Songbai continued.
"How do you know so clearly?" Wen Hao didn't just ask.
"Matsumoto Trading Company didn't have enough Japanese employees, so they found some Chinese employees who they thought were comfortable and transported arms for them, and I heard from a Chinese employee." Zhang Songbai explained.
"Oh, how could that Chinese employee tell you that?" Wen Hao asked.
"Huh?" Zhang Songbai sighed first, and then said, "He was a friend I knew when I didn't move to Nanjing before, and his family was good, but after his father's business failed, he fell down, but he knew some Japanese, and his father had done business with some Japanese businessmen and knew some Japanese, and he was later favored by the people of Matsumoto Trading Company, and did some chores in it." In fact, others are not bad, but they are also doing things under the Japanese in order to survive. Zhang Songbai said. Wen Hao thought to himself that although this person was working under the Japanese, it was also because he knew some Japanese and had some contacts with them.
"You see you know some traitor-like people." Hao Dahai said unhappily when he heard it. In his eyes, doing things for devils is a traitor.
Zhou Yuying was also a little dissatisfied when she heard this, thinking to herself, cousin, it's not good that you know something. You have to know such people.
"What a traitor, how many people in Shanghai have done business with the Japanese, and how many people have done things for that foreigner in order to survive, only to say that he can speak Japanese, so it is easier to find a job with the Japanese. When I chatted with him, he also hated the devil's invasion of Shanghai. Otherwise, how could I have known about these situations. Zhang Songbai distinguished his friend.
As soon as he heard it, he asked Hao Dahai not to say it, what Wen Hao hated the most was that he couldn't move at every turn because he had been in a relationship with someone, so he classified this kind of person as a hostile person, and he had to become a class antagonist.
At every turn, we call some people enemies of the people, class antagonists, or something, and we want to defeat them, criticize them, and to be mild, to educate and transform them.
"Did the munitions arrive at Matsumoto Trading Company's warehouse?" Wen Hao asked.
"Yes. They used the trucks of their trading company to transport them, and he also participated in the delivery, but the warehouse was guarded by many Japanese soldiers and was very watched. Zhang Songbai also knew that Wen Hao wanted to blow up the arms, but in his eyes, this was impossible.
"By the way, did you get the explosives you went to get them?" Wen Hao remembered this.
"This is easier to do, that Yankee only recognizes money and not people." Zhang Songbai said very happily.
"Those Americans are materialistic vulgar consumerists who see money as long as they can buy everything." Zhou Yuying said dissatisfied.
Wen Hao smiled when he heard this, if society was swept away by such vulgar consumerism. Under the pressure of "consumption first" and "material supremacy", ideals, beliefs, and morality will inevitably retreat step by step. As a result, some people would rather cry in the BMW and use their emotions as bargaining chips; Some people go online to show off "godfather" luxury cars. Gambled with dignity; Some people sold their positions and ranks at a clear price, and made a deal with faith...... The epidemic of consumerism can easily lead to the reversal of the concept of honor and disgrace, the loss of the concept of right and wrong, and the erosion of social customs.
This kind of fetishist, though, in some like to pursue faith. People who pursue doctrine see them as vulgar in their hearts, but in Wen Hao's eyes, they can be regarded as materialists, after all, they regard material as the most important thing and think that material is everything. It's just that the spiritual stuff is neglected too much.
At least it is more practical than some people who only attach importance to spiritual things, and who want to carry forward this spirit at every turn, and forget that material is the first nature of the world.
In fact, the materialistic outlook on life in the United States can be regarded as a kind of materialism, but it emphasizes the importance of material things too much and ignores some spiritual things, which is a bit extreme.
"I said, cousin, have you accepted some of the ideas of the proletariat, as if there are some things that are hostile to capitalism now, but in fact, those proletarians like to talk about this and that, but in the final analysis, it's not for money? Besides, you see how many proletarian teams in Shanghai have become bourgeois teams through hard work, and there are also bourgeois who have become proletarian after bankruptcy, just like when Yu Qiaqing first came to Shanghai, he didn't even have a pair of shoes, and now he has become the richest person in Shanghai, and is called the barefoot God of Wealth. Zhang Songbai said disapprovingly.
Zhang Songbai is accustomed to eating, drinking, and having fun, and he dislikes those who engage in class struggle the most; for many years in Shanghai, he has seen many people start from scratch, from the proletariat to the propertied corps, and then become capitalists, and many people from capitalists to proletarians overnight. "Okay, how do you people talk about these things, that's what the politics and metallurgists think about, what does it have to do with us?" Hao Dahai was impatient on the side, he wanted to kill the devil.
"Don't you know that struggling with the heavens is endlessly fun! Struggle with the ground, the fun is endless! Struggle with people, the fun is endless! Wen Hao immediately remembered what a celebrity said.
"Come on, the Chinese will only fight to the death and me in the internal fight, and they will be happy to fight and tolerate and give way, and deal with it peacefully." If you really have the spirit of fighting with the sky and the earth, will you become the sick man of East Asia? The best thing is to fight people, and it is fun to fight. It is this kind of spirit of fighting people that has made China, the world's most powerful country, reduced to a country bullied by other countries, and it is embarrassing to say such things. Zhou Yuying was not happy when she heard it.
Wen Hao thought about it for a while, if China was not now a warlord scuffle, and on the surface the Nationalist Government was in power, but it could not order those warlords from all walks of life, Zhang Xueliang would have refused to fight with the Japanese in order to preserve his strength and abandoned the Northeast.
Moreover, Chiang Kai-shek also mobilized his 87th and 88th divisions to prepare for this campaign, which was his descendant troops, and he couldn't transfer other troops if he wanted to.
Chiang Kai-shek's air force also participated in the fighting, and in fact, many of the troops were nominally under the control of the central government, but it was somewhat difficult to mobilize them.
Many warlords ostensibly resisted Japan, but when they really wanted them to send troops, they found various reasons to shirk and refused to send a single soldier.
The Central Army's attempt to effectively unify China is their greatest threat. So they colluded with France (Longyun in Yunnan), Britain (warlords in the northwest), Soviet Russia (warlords in Xinjiang), and even in collusion with Japan (warlords in North China such as Rehe). As for the fact that China had already established a state within a state and preached class struggle, it was impossible to cooperate with the central government. In order to resist them, the central government used a lot of manpower and material resources. In short, China is not actually united, and it is still far from the all-people war of resistance and the protracted war of resistance.
Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek's proposal to fight outside the country must first be at home was not aimed at a certain political party, but at the political and metallurgical situation in China at that time.
How could a fragmented China confront Japan, then an Asian power?
Perhaps Chiang Kai-shek was too partial to his descendants later, but in the first Battle of Songhu, Chiang Kai-shek did not let his own descendants stay in the rear and let the miscellaneous troops rush forward.
Jiang Gong urgently ordered the three most elite units of the Central Army, the 87th Division, the 88th Division and the Central Teaching Corps, which were the reserves of the 19th Route Army, totaling more than 30,000 people. This can also be seen in Chiang Kai-shek's determination to resist Japan, which is also the reason why Chiang Kai-shek later attached too much importance to his descendants and despised the miscellaneous warlords.
"By the way, Zhang Songbai, can you invite your friend to come out and meet when you arrive, I want to ask him for a favor?" After Wen Hao listened to Zhang Songbai's words, an idea came out of his heart.
"I'm afraid it's a little inconvenient, their trading company is more tightly in charge of them now, this time I'm going to find him, I'm afraid he can't come out." Zhang Songbai said with some embarrassment.
"Then let's do it, I'll go to the concession with you to find him today, is this okay?" Wen Hao said.
"You go to the concession or the sphere of influence of the Japanese, you are afraid of danger if you go like this, you just came down from the battlefield, killed a lot of devils, and your song is known to all the people of Shanghai, the Japanese are afraid that they will start to pay attention to you, when you arrive at this time, their territory, aren't you throwing yourself into the net?" As soon as Zhou Yuying heard this, she immediately objected and didn't let Wen Hao go.
"It doesn't matter, although I am famous now, there are few people who have seen me, that is, there are few people who can recognize me on the street, so there is no danger for me to go." Wen Hao said indifferently.
It is true that in addition to reporter Zhou, Wen Hao did not let her take pictures of him, and now asked Zhao Jingxiang to help him deal with those reporters. So Wen Hao doesn't believe that there will be a doxing function in this era.
Although Zhou Yuying and Hao Dahai were a little worried about Wen Hao, Wen Hao still made an appointment with Zhang Songbai to go to the concession at night to find Zhang Songbai's friends and learn more about the situation. (To be continued.) )