Section 9 The Bombing of Tokyo XIII
Xue Muhua and Rejimi accepted the congratulations of the people at the scene on behalf of all the pilots who flew out, and the village committees of several nearby villages also organized the people to send a few pigs
The Air Force has very strict ideological control, and Gao Zhihang himself does not have much good impression of GCD, until Li Guidan was helped by the GCD guerrillas in the Battle of North China, his perception began to change: Li Mei has been in China for more than a year, and has not had much contact with the GCD organization, and this time the construction of the airport in Jiaodong has contact with the GCD, and he appreciates the efficiency and integrity of the GCD organization very much. \.qβV. Com
In order to ensure the safety of the airport, the GCD Jiaodong Military Region also stationed a main regiment around the airport.
Gao Zhihang didn't like speeches very much, so he pushed Li Mei to attend the press conference. For Li Mei, this is something that cannot be desired, just like all Americans, it is very exciting to be in the headlines of the newspapers, even if Gao Zhihang does not let him, he is ready to grab it.
When confronted by reporters, the frustration that I had just seen the plane crash had dissipated without a trace, and the rest of the excitement rose to the extreme: "Ladies and gentlemen, I now officially declare that from today onwards, the sea can no longer protect Japan, and we will continue to attack Japan from the air until they lay down their arms and surrender unconditionally!" Li Mei's first words made Xue Muhua almost stumble, Li Mei looked as if he was in charge of everything, and Rejimi beside him muttered in a low voice: "God, he wants to replace you." ”
Xue Muhua forced a smile and tried to tense his face, which made him look a little weird, but fortunately, the reporters' attention was focused on Li Mei.
"General, are there big losses in this bombing?" A reporter asked impatiently.
"The loss you see is our only loss." Li May was in a very happy mood, and he pointed to the wreckage of the plane that was still being cleaned up in the distance: "When the British bombed Germany, the losses were about twenty percent, and our losses today are one, and the other two are slightly wounded, and with only a few simple repairs can be put back into battle: in terms of personnel, only sixteen of our men were wounded, three of them slightly more seriously, and I am sure they will soon be able to return to the blue sky." ”
Li Mei raised a hand: "This is clear, Japan has no way to deal with the Super Flying Fortress, their planes are simply not able to fly at an altitude of 10,000 meters, here I want to tell the Japanese, yesterday is Sasebo, tomorrow is Tokyo, Daechi, Nagoya, our planes will visit every city in Japan ...............,!" ”
Li Mei's photo of Li Mei as a god and Xue Muhua's photo of Rejimi holding flowers and receiving cheers made the headlines of major newspapers at the same time, and an air force fever quickly ignited among the domestic public.
"General Li Mei announced that the Sea of Japan can no longer protect Japan, and the Chinese Air Force has severely attacked Japan's ......" "The joint air attack by the Chinese and US air forces on Sasebo has completely destroyed the Japanese naval base!" "From today onwards, Japan has been directly within the scope of our strike, this time is completely different from the last time, this bombing represents the defeat of Japan on all fronts in the past two years, in the Chinese battlefield, turned into a full-scale counteroffensive, wiped out millions of Japanese troops, in the Pacific Ocean, the US military recovered the Caroline Islands, approaching the Philippines: the Marshall Islands, the Mariana Islands, Japan's absolute national listening circle has been shaking!" ……
Compatriots, we have been fighting Japan for 13 years since 918, and there will be one year at most before this war will end, and this will be the first time since the Opium War in 1840 that we have won a complete and complete victory!
Compatriots, we are in the darkness before dawn, in the seven years of large-scale war, we have done our best, all than paid a huge price, the country's finances are very difficult, the people in the rear have taken out the last dollar, the last grain of food, to support the front, the front-line soldiers have reduced food and clothing, aid refugees, but this is still only a drop in the bucket, the recovered areas have suffered great damage, millions of workers in the cities have lost their jobs, and famine is threatening tens of millions of people in North China.
To overcome these difficulties and achieve the final and complete victory, we have only one way, to unite around the Central Committee, and strive to practice the concept of building the country through the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression! ””
The Central Daily published a long article in the name of Chiang Kai-shek on the front page, in which it made a comprehensive analysis of the war, pointing out that victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was imminent, the country was in the most difficult period, and the state finances were almost exhausted, and called on the people of the whole country to overcome the difficulties they faced with confidence and will.
The article caused a huge repercussion in the Kuomintang region, and Chongqing University, Chongqing Federation of Trade Unions, and peasant associations jointly appealed to the people of the whole country to "do everything for victory!" "Save every grain of grain, every inch of cloth, support North China, and help refugees!" This appeal was immediately responded to by all parts of the country, Chengdu, Kunming, Guiyang, Xi'an, Guangzhou, Guilin, including Wuhan, Jinan, and Qingdao, which had newly recovered, and Wuhan launched a donation campaign, and Wuhan citizens who had not yet come out of the predicament took out their hidden savings from the corner, from the closet, from under the bed, and sent them to the donation office: in the village, the villagers left coarse grains and sent rice to the village office.
The donation campaign quickly spread throughout the country, and even people in the occupied areas under Japanese occupation secretly collected donations and sent people across the battle lines to deliver them to the government.
With the help of this campaign, the Nationalist Government announced the issuance of 500 million fiat currency bonds for the relief of the victims and the reconstruction of North China, with a face value of 10 yuan, guaranteed by the national salt tax after the war, and all citizens could buy them. Subsequently, Chiang Kai-shek announced that he had subscribed to a month's salary, and Yang Yongtai, chairman of the Nationalist Government, also announced a subscription to a month's salary.
After these news were reported, the public was enthusiastic and enthusiastically bought them, and the 500 million bonds were sold out in just one week.
Chiang Kai-shek was very excited about this situation, and the war bond was proposed by Zhuang Jihua during his inspection of North China, and the situation in North China, especially in Tianjin, shocked him, and the whole city was almost completely destroyed, even in the warm scene of welcoming him, he could still feel their apprehension.
In Tianjin, Tang Shizun and Zhang Tingjun reported to him in detail the situation in Tianjin, Tianjin is extremely surrounded, the original thousands of factories, now less than 30% can start work, the city has more than 300,000 workers unemployed, the city has about 110,000 houses destroyed, there are millions of people sleeping on the streets, the local garrison police have all mobilized to help the victims rebuild their homes, but this needs a process, Tang Shizun and Zhang Tingjun submitted a list of Han Jiān to Chiang Kai-shek in front of Zhuang Jihua, asking for their property to be confiscated, In addition, Japanese property is auctioned to reap reconstruction funds.
But to Chiang Kai-shek's surprise, Zhuang Jihua obviously did not know this list, he read the list, resolutely opposed, thinking that the attack was too large, there was a suspicion of fishing with all his might, he suggested that the previous Han Jiān, who had a great influence and bad behavior, should be arrested, confiscated property, and the others needed to be carefully investigated, otherwise once all these industrial and commercial people were arrested, the entire Tianjin would increase the unemployment of at least 30 percent of the workers.
He suggested the establishment of a state-owned company, real estate development, low-rent housing and commercial housing development, of which low-rent housing is mainly for poor families of public rental housing, the maximum room is 60 square meters, the area of commercial housing is not limited, the purchase method can be divided into two ways, one is to buy in full, the other is to pay only the down payment, the insufficient part by the bank to provide mortgage loans, to buy the house as collateral, monthly return.
This method is very common in later generations, but at this time it is the first and most adventurous, and now people do not have the consciousness of spending tomorrow's money, but Zhuang Jihua proposed to let private banks implement, Chiang Kai-shek understood this, he drew a line on the list proposed by Zhang Tingyi in Tang style, the upper part of the approval of the arrest, the inspection of the well property, the lower part is not allowed to move, the members are about one-third of the list.
Zhuang Jihua immediately put forward a supplement, suggesting the establishment of a management committee, with Zhang Tingqiao as the team leader and He Xiwu as the deputy leader, and the factory was not allowed to suspend work and the store was not allowed to close. Chiang Kai-shek approved this proposal without the slightest hesitation, and there were already too many unemployed workers in Tianjin, and if these factories were to shut down any longer, there would be even more unemployed workers.
Chiang Kai-shek also attended a joint meeting of the Tianjin Municipal Government and businessmen presided over by Zhuang Jihua to rebuild after the war, at which Zhuang Jihua demanded that the factory owners in Tianjin resume work as soon as possible, that one machine should be used and one machine should be used, and that workers should not be dismissed without authorization.
Chiang Kai-shek participated in the joint meeting, this move made Zhuang Jihua a little surprised, industry and commerce have never been Chiang Kai-shek's strength, and he can even not understand it at all, but he still participated in this meeting,
At the end of the session, Chiang Kai-shek told the participants that the government was trying to issue bonds to ease the country's financial constraints, and that the government had decided to provide another five million fiat currency to the factories to provide loans and lower industrial and commercial taxes to help the factories recover and rebuild: In addition, he also made it clear to the business people attending the meeting that the government would examine the Han Jiān in accordance with the law, and would not arrest the Han Jiān at will, and only those who sincerely cooperated with him were Han Jiān.
Chiang Kai-shek's speech immediately aroused the confidence of the factory owners present, especially the last point, which made the factory owners present at the meeting feel a little sneering, and all of them were in trepidation before attending the meeting.
After Chiang Kai-shek approved the list, the garrison command and police nose immediately took action that night to arrest all those on the list. This move shook these industrial and commercial people in Tianjin in one fell swoop, and put everyone in danger, and now Chiang Kai-shek personally promised that they would finally be at ease.
Before Chiang Kai-shek left North China, he summoned Zhuang Jihua again to discuss the source of funds for the reconstruction of North China; since he refused Hopkins' concessions to Soviet Russia, Chiang Kai-shek was not sure that the US government would approve the issuance of bonds in the United States.
After returning to Chongqing, Chiang Kai-shek immediately summoned Song Ziwen, Ma Yinchu and others, and decided to issue bonds to raise a batch of funds.
To Chiang Kai-shek's surprise, however, the bonds were sold out within a week, and the unprecedented enthusiasm of the people gave him great confidence. So when Hopkins returned from Moscow to the Huangshan Villa, he met a confident leader of the country
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