"Even if he was once a tyrant, as long as he completely lost the ability to harm others, in an era of peace, he might as well be given a way out. If this is done on the issue of the leader of the party, it will undoubtedly be a good example for other scholars, and it may serve as a warning to them to put down their butcher's knives and become Buddhas on the spot. This opportunity has unfortunately been lost. Other readers may be even crazier as a result, and the cost of the open cooking process may be heavier. Therefore, in my opinion, the death of the leader of the Cloth Party is not only not a blessing for China's Ming Cooking, but also a blessing for the world. ”

"That's a good job, Dad." "It's a big step forward for people in China to be aware of this now," Babs said. ”

"Grandpa said back then that China is a country full of hope, and we should help them." Babs remembered her grandfather Rockefeller Sr.'s donation to China, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Yes, he often said, I believe in the supreme value of every individual, and his right to pursue freedom and happiness." Rockefeller nodded and said, "We should help them well and love them like God." ”

This father-daughter conversation may sound unbelievable, but it is undeniable that a "stingy" capitalist like Rockefeller Sr., the king of oil, the father of trusts, has another layer of identity, the greatest philanthropist in American history. By the 20s of the 20th century, the Rockefeller Foundation had become the largest charity in the world, and the medical education and public health sponsored by the elder Rockefeller were the world's last names. He gave $530 million directly during his lifetime, and his entire family's charities sponsored more than $1 billion. In 1915, the Rockefeller Foundation established the Chinese Medical Council, which in 1921 established the Yenching Union Medical College, which trained a large number of medical professionals with modern knowledge for China.

This epoch-making act of devotion by the elder Rockefeller has led to mixed perceptions and evaluations of him, and thus has left him with a paradoxical reputation. He is a mixture of piety and greed, compassion and murderous cunning; He is the embodiment of the discredited tradition of America's Puritan patriarchs, who encouraged frugality and industriousness while inspiring greed. Someone said of him: "He is the greatest citizen of our country except our beloved President." It is he who creates knowledge with his wealth, and there is no second person without it. The world is a better place because of him. The world's chief citizen will go down in history. His contribution to exploration will be recognized as a milestone in human progress. ”

Rockefeller Sr. once said, "The ability to make money is a gift from God." Out of a sense of duty to his family, the old Rockefeller later passed on this outlook to his only son, Rockefeller Jr., the father of Babs.

When Rockefeller Jr. became the head of the family, he not only took over the family's oil business, but also took over the family's philanthropic work. At times, Rockefeller Jr. found it difficult to find a psychological balance between his two ancestral family businesses, the oil business and philanthropy, and he often suffered from nervous insanities. Rockefeller Jr. once described to Babs that his business felt like he was in a race against his conscience. His religious education often made him wonder if what he was doing in business was right.

Rockefeller Jr. established Rockefeller Center in New York and managed to save many of the ancient redwoods in the mountains of the western United States. In fact, he also gave up many opportunities to carry forward the family business, and now looking back at what he did, much of his time was spent on giving away the family wealth rather than accumulating more wealth. But Babs knew that in the process of doing great charity, her father was greatly satisfied, and he saw that there were many problems in the world and tried to help solve them.

Rockefeller Jr.'s investment in China is on the one hand to expand the oil business in China on a larger scale, and on the other hand, it is also to imagine what his father will do for this country with a quarter of the world's population.

He has a clear understanding of the potential of the Chinese market, and of course, he also knows what kind of disaster such a country can bring to the whole world if it falls into a long-term turmoil.

A peaceful and stable China is also very important to Rockefeller's oil empire. It's just that few people can clearly realize this now and in the future.

During the days when the wave of "Red Terror" swept through China, Rockefeller always feared that China's political axe would be mishandled, that it would become a victim of the second Bolshevism after Russia, and that it would return to the era of the "Boxer Rebellion". But the performance of many Chinese in this turmoil still gave him a good impression and made him feel that the future of the country is still full of hope.

But at this time, Rockefeller did not expect that there were other unknown pieces, quietly staged in the dark corners.

The night rain was dashing, and the sinister river wind hit the drizzle on people's faces, as if many cold little insects were slowly wriggling. The fighting in the suburbs was still raging, and from time to time there was a sound like pulling the cork of a wine bottle, and the sleeping people did not know what it was, but the Chinese agents on the "special mission" could clearly distinguish that it was the sound of silenced gunfire.

At this time, Colonel Xu Shiyou, the captain of the Special Brigade of the Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense, turned his back and blocked the cold wind with his windbreaker, he lit a cigarette with a match around his hands, and then took a hard puff. He was so sleepy that his eyelids were so heavy that they seemed to be filled with lead, and the house under surveillance a few dozen meters across the alley had become faint and daunting in the stormy night, and for a moment even he couldn't figure out whether this secret operation was a dream.

Their covert ambush surveillance has been going on for three full days.

Long before this "Red Terror", the spy warfare between the intelligence services of China and Soviet Russia was already quietly going on in China's major cities. Like a sinister poisonous spider, the "Third International Intelligence Bureau" quietly weaves an invisible web on the land of China, infiltrating China's political axe organs and army from north to south, wantonly snaring those officers, unemployed workers, and intellectuals who are dissatisfied with China's political axe, and arranging for them to lurk and carry out espionage activities. As soon as the "Red Tide Storm" broke out, the Soviet and Russian spies in Shanghai became unusually active. They went around spying on all kinds of intelligence, carrying out counter-insurgency work, sabotaging communication lines, guiding and planning bombings, carrying out explosive assassinations, and so on. Yang Shuoming immediately ordered the intelligence department to find clues within a time limit and completely eliminate the enemy.

Upon receiving Yang Shuoming's order, China's intelligence departments immediately launched a nationwide "net clearing" operation, and some responsible persons of intelligence departments even rushed to Shanghai, Wuhan, Nanjing, Guangzhou, and other big cities to take charge of counterespionage operations. As a result of the active involvement of "Renhe and the Company" and the local guilds and gangs of China's major commercial enterprises, a "Special Operations Corps," an armed Chinese secret service corps, with agents of China's intelligence services (including unofficial agents of "Renhe") as the backbone, local garrisons and major guilds and gangs as the periphery, and a large number of male and female workers and young students as members, was secretly born. The mission of the Einsatzgruppen is to counter-espionage and to go deep into the riot organizations and trade unions and peasant associations to complete various special tasks. Xu Shiyou, who used to be a member of the "Dragon" special forces, was also transferred from the regular army to this special front as a colonel captain.

By now, the outcome of this war, which is not a war, has become clear, but in some places the situation is still not optimistic. After several large-scale operations, the rampant activities of Soviet and Russian agents and party elements were somewhat curtailed, and many of the open sabotage during the day was changed to nighttime. During a night operation, the Einsatzgruppen accidentally seized a valuable piece of information, and discovered that this ordinary-looking gray building adjacent to the former French Concession turned out to be the head of the Soviet Russian spy department, and learned that the leader of the Soviet Russian spy would enter the gray building to hold an important meeting in the near future.

Captain Xu led a team of elite rangers to infiltrate an abandoned workshop opposite the gray building, and ambushed on all sides to monitor the movements of the gray building day and night. In order to prevent the leakage of rumors, Captain Liao except for keeping in touch with "Boss Wang", the rest of the people blocked the news, and all the special team members who entered the ambush site were strictly selected to ensure that nothing went wrong.

A large net of tightness was quietly opened in the darkness.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is missing, and the people's eyes are wide open, just waiting for the fish to burrow into the net. But as time passed, three days and three nights passed, and the signal never appeared. The rangers were vigilant and lax because of the severe lack of sleep, and Captain Xu's eyes were bloodshot and his mood was irritable. He stared at the dark and rainy night, and felt that his head was like an over-tightened clockwork, and countless ominous predictions and question marks tormented him, and his tense nerves were overwhelmed, and his head ached.

In the darkness, he seemed to see the omnipresent eyes of "Boss Wang".

“…… The plan is very good, and I have submitted it to the Director General for approval. "Boss Wang" spoke in a low voice, but it was very weighty, and his slightly narrowed eyes shot out something as cold and cold as steel, and everyone who lacked confidence would break out in a cold sweat in their vests.

“…… On my behalf, you conveyed the Director's instructions to all the colleagues participating in the operation, the first sentence was 'only success and no failure', and the second sentence was 'Eliminate internal annihilation and protect the people'...... At which level of the operation went wrong, I asked which level of captain the head of the captain. Remember, I will always report the news of your victory to Yanjing......"

Captain Xu has already ordered that once the round-up begins, he must be cautious and never let go of a single Soviet Russian spy or party member who slips through the net. He wants to personally wipe out this vicious group of Soviet and Russian spy leaders.

But the cunning enemy was slow to show his face.

Xu Shiyou unconsciously stretched out his hand and touched the special pistol in his arms that had been loaded with a silencer.

At this moment, only the cold metallic texture of the weapon would calm him down.

And the muffler, an advanced equipment that does not cause panic, also makes him feel more down-to-earth.

The silencer is not actually an invention of the Chinese, the American Makqin invented the commercial silencer in 1902. However, the silencer equipped by Xu Shiyou and his comrades-in-arms is a product of the "Renhe" company.

The silencer manufactured by Renhe is a device used by agents to attach to firearms to reduce the level of noise and flare generated when bullets are fired. Because in China, the piercing sound of gunfire has always caused panic among the population, reminiscent of repression and assassination, which is not conducive to the execution of special missions. In order to minimize the troubles of secret agents, silencers, which are not very promising in the United States and European countries, have ushered in its golden age in China.

In 1918, the company developed a new type of silencer (the main design comes from Yang Shuoming's own creativity), usually it is a cylindrical metal tube mounted on the barrel, different models of products will have different internal structures to reduce the sound of shooting, most models are by changing the way the propulsion gas is discharged to reduce noise, and some are by reducing the rate of fire of the warhead to achieve the effect of suppressing sound.

Most of the silencers invented by Renhe are based on the principle that the high-pressure gas in the barrel expands relatively slowly before it is ejected out of the muzzle, which significantly reduces the noise due to the reduction of the speed at which the gas is ejected. This process is like slowly opening a can of carbonated drink with a "sizzle" sound instead of the usual "pop". It is not possible for a silencer to completely eliminate the sound of a weapon, or to reduce the sound of a shot to a small whistling. In fact, even with a silencer, the sound of firing could still be heard at a considerable distance.

Another important effect on vocal suppression is the effect on the initial velocity of the warhead (muzzle velocity). For weapons that fire supersonic warheads, mainly rifles, the supersonic warheads themselves produce a loud and high-pitched sound (a small sonic boom phenomenon) as they fire at the target. This is often referred to as a "ballistic explosion". For this reason, it is difficult to effectively eliminate the nickname of such firearms. Subsonic munitions attenuate the sound of explosions, but because they are slower than supersonic munitions, they also have a relatively small kill rate and range.

Silencers have other advantages besides noise reduction. The silencer can change the sound of the shot and the way it is disseminated, thus making it more difficult for the opponent to determine the position of the shooter. Most mufflers are also effective at reducing recoil. The silencer also cools the hot gases that eject from the barrel enough to allow the vast majority of the lead vapor ejected from the barrel to condense inside the silencer, reducing the level of lead inhalation that can be inhaled by the shooter and the people around him. The silencer is particularly useful at close quarters where the sound and pressure effects caused by the sound of the weapon are strong. Because these effects can make the shooter and those around them feel very uncomfortable, they can lead to a decrease in the shooter's concentration and accuracy of the surname, and can quickly cause permanent damage to the shooter's sense of hearing. When not using a silencer, a short-barreled rifle like a carbine fires incredibly loudly when fired indoors or in hallways. Silencers reduce the pressure effect of shockwaves-like from gunshots, mitigating these problems and the cost of permanent hearing damage.

Chinese snipers with special rifles have found that many of the important advantages of silencers far outweigh the negative effects it has on the appearance of the gun, the extra weight and the balance of the firearm. With reduced noise, recoil and muzzle gas, this allows the shooter to calmly complete the first shot without pausing too much for a carefully aimed follow-up shot. Because it reduces the turbulence generated by the propulsion gas when the bullet is fired from the muzzle, a good silencer can also slightly improve the accuracy of the shot; And when the shot is effectively suppressed, the opponent often does not know the direction of the shot. However, on the battlefield, if it hits a rock or rubs against a plant, this large, hollow rifle silencer can cause a nasty sound that can startle the target, so many users have put a snugly rubber sleeve on the silencer or wrapped it in a thick cloth.

It was also quickly discovered that there were also many benefits to using silencers in military rifles. By inducing the gas to overflow, the silencer significantly reduces recoil. By making the gas eject out of the muzzle twice as fast as the velocity of the projectile, this reduces the perceived recoil by fifty percent. The added weight of the silencer also contributes to the reduction of recoil, although a significantly heavier silencer can also upset the balance of the weapon. Another often-overlooked benefit of silencers is that they can reduce firing flashes by up to 90 percent. This is very important if the battle takes place at night. In the usual shooting training subjects, soldiers are trained to recognize the flash of fire emitted when shooting, so that during battle, soldiers will shoot at the location where the flash appears. Rifles equipped with silencers eliminate this danger and are more conducive to covert combat.

And now, most of the members of the Einsatzgruppen are armed with guns with silencers.

In the sound of the wind and rain, Captain Xu felt that a chill had penetrated into his heart.

Could it be that the intelligence is wrong? Or leaking the news? Isn't it the enemy's cunning rabbit three holes, and the meeting place has been transferred?

In all this, the situation between friend and foe is unpredictable, and any unpredictable possible surnames exist. The question is how can he explain to "Boss Wang" if this ambush fails, and can he take responsibility for the failure?

Just when Captain Xu was a little upset, there were suddenly lights and figures shaking in the gray building. Then one of the team members lowered their voice to report that the inner line had signaled that the enemy had all entered the surveillance site.

(To be continued)