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Chapter 549 is high-profile and low-key

"Angry hair rushes to the crown and leans on the railing, Xiaoxiao rain rests ......"

In the melodious and passionate music, a young man knelt on the ground on the wide screen, sweating profusely, clenching his silver teeth, and his face was full of determination. www.biquge.info A trembling old woman held an embroidery needle in her hand, and when her wrist was raised, blood beads dripping out of the man's back, and after a while, four big characters jumped on her back: Serve the country with loyalty.

The audience burst into applause, which soon spread throughout the audience.

This is the premiere of the New Oriental Cinema located next to Father Jin Lu'an and Xincun in the French Concession, China's first sound film "Man Jianghong".

On the New Year's Day of the 19th year of the Republic of China, 19 movie theaters all over Shanghai opened at the same time, and the sound film "Man Jianghong" shot by the Oriental Film Company was screened at the same time, and the entire Shanghai Tang was boiling.

Founded in April last year, Oriental Film Company is a subsidiary of Oriental News Group, with a registered capital of 100,000 US dollars, and the general manager is Chen Jianxuan, the former editor-in-chief of Oriental News. At the beginning of its establishment, the Oriental Film Company began to build 19 theaters in the French Concession and the Public Concession at the same time, purchased the latest sound film production equipment from the United States, and spent $10,000 to shoot the first sound production film "Man Jianghong" in China.

"Man Jianghong" is based on the story of Yue Fei's resistance to gold, starting from his young army mother carving "Serve the country with loyalty" on her back, and ending with the twelve gold medal classes. The whole movie is divided into two episodes, each episode is 90 minutes, during which the ** is repeated, starting from the initial Battle of Tokyo, the victory of Shimizu Pavilion, the victory of Longwan, and the defeat of Nanba Bridge, each scene has attracted continuous applause from the audience, and when the film finally deduces the four Northern Expedition victories and the unprecedented victory of Zhuxian Town, many people cheered loudly and shed tears on the spot.

If you look at it from the perspective of future generations, the production lineup of this movie can be called luxurious, and both the protagonists and supporting roles have left an extremely deep impression. Born in Chongqing, director Sun Yu traveled to Shanghai with his family as a child, where he was first introduced to cinema in a cinema. In 1914, Sun Yu entered Nankai Middle School, and after graduation, he was admitted to Tsinghua School, where he became fascinated by film and poetry, and later studied in the United States to study drama and film. After returning to China in 1926, Sun Yu took over several martial arts films, and the response was good. After the establishment of Oriental Film Company, Chen Jianxuan recruited talents, and many famous directors and actors signed contracts, including the talented Sun Yu.

Yue Fei in the film is played by Wang Shaohua, an assistant professor of history at Jiangnan Institute of Technology, 23 years old this year, a native of Kaifeng, Henan, after graduating from Peking University last year, he took a train to the south and rushed to Jiangnan Institute of Technology, and applied for a job as a history assistant teacher. In addition, the roles of Niu Gao, Yang Zaixing, Yue Yun and other generals of the Yue family were also played appropriately by a group of actors who had never been in contact with movies before, and they were deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

For example, Yang Zaixing, played by Warrant Officer Xu Yifan, a graduate of the infantry department of the non-commissioned officer base, has two impressive plays, one is that Yang Zaixing is invincible, rushing into the enemy formation left and right, specializing in the search for the golden vultures, killing the golden vulture to cut his beard and abandon his robe and flee in embarrassment, his brave and invincible image jumps on the screen, the second is the fall of the Xiaoshang River, at that time, as the striker, Yang Zaixing can only support the Jin Wushu brigade to avoid the main force of the Song army on the march to be completely annihilated, Yang Zaixing's pre-war mobilization fully expresses the Song army's defense of the country, The tragic and heroic that can not be retreated, many viewers cried bitterly when they heard Yang Zaixing's words - "Everyone who dies here, no one will remember your name, except for your family, there may not be too many people who know and are sad, but sometimes we have to die, and sometimes, death is more valuable than life!" ”

Xu Yifan is a native of Cangzhou, Hebei Province, with a dignified appearance, extremely superb riding skills and martial arts, and is a good soldier seedling that Xiao Wuji, the commander of the cavalry regiment of the Independent Division, is optimistic about. The reason why he was selected by the crew of "Man Jianghong" to play Yang Zaixing this time is an allusion. Xu Yifan was about to return to the army after graduating from the non-commissioned officer base, and after getting carried away, he came to the riverside and galloped wildly, and unconsciously showed off his riding skills, but was discovered by Sun Yu, who was selecting actors everywhere, and immediately named him to play Yang Zaixing. Originally, Xu Yifan was unwilling to live or die, but later he was asked by Yang Bin, the director of the base, to complete it as a political task, so he agreed aggrievedly. This time he played Yang Zaixing and became an instant hit, and he didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse.

The ** of the whole play appeared at the end, when Zhu Xianzhen won an unprecedented victory, Yue Yun "people are blood people, horses are blood horses", Yue Fei personally went into battle, he never drank alcohol, he said in front of the army, "This time kill the gold people, go straight to the Huanglong Mansion, and drink with the kings!" At that time, the friendly forces on the left and right flanks suddenly retreated silently, and twelve gold medals were sent in turn, and the lonely and tall Yue Fei's voice gradually disappeared in the endless night.

“…… Jing Kang is ashamed, and it is still snowing; When will the courtiers perish? Drive a long car and step through Helan Mountain. Zhuang is hungry for Hu Lu meat; Laughing and thirsty for the blood of the Huns. To start from the beginning, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and face the sky. ”

The film ended in the impassioned singing of "Man Jianghong", as the subtitles appeared, the lights in the luxuriously decorated cinema were lit up one by one, the audience applauded, and the main creative staff took the stage for three curtain calls, still unable to meet the enthusiasm of the audience, and finally had to sing the theme song of the film "Man Jianghong" in unison to show respect. The audience consciously stood up and sent the cast and crew away, their faces full of eagerness.

On the street outside the movie theater, the car carrying Huang Jinrong and Cheng Ziqing drove slowly.

"I didn't expect the movie "Man Jianghong" produced by Oriental Film Company to be so popular, I walked more than ten places, and there were long queues in front of every theater, when did we Chinese become so rich?" Cheng Ziqing shook his head and said with some puzzlement.

Huang Jinrong looked at the flow of people waiting to watch the movie from the street to the end, and sighed: "Sound movies are indeed not comparable to silent films, last night I was invited to attend the film viewing party held by the Oriental Film Company, and nearly 100 celebrities and well-known reporters enjoyed the film together.

All the newspapers published today applauded, saying that "Man Jianghong" is an epoch-making film in China and even the world, and a milestone in the history of film. In the past few years, the silent movies we have invested in and shot have been so profitable, not to mention this big-budget sound movie with an investment of 10,000 US dollars. ”

Cheng Ziqing pouted: "Isn't An Yi's kid behind his back?" I heard that the framing and production of this film, many of which were completed in Lao Nanchang, and there are many bloody ancient war scenes in the film, which are said to have been sent by Zhang Chengzhu of the Central Cavalry Division to participate, which has an innate advantage in production. Isn't An Yi afraid that his principal will trouble him? ”

Huang Jinrong smiled faintly: "Ziqing, it seems that you are still angry about An Yi hurting your junior brother last year, listen to me, forget all these unpleasantness, the current An Yi is far from what you can provoke."

Let's not say that he is deeply respected by Zhongzheng, has a good relationship with the elders of all parties in the party, and now he is holding military power and controlling one side, let's just say that these nineteen movie theaters are owned by Oriental Film Company on the surface, but in fact they are composed of complex shares, Yu Qiaqing, Feng Jingyao, Kong Xiangxi, Song Ziwen, and even your fifth uncle Du are all involved in it, otherwise do you think that a newly established film company has so much real estate and funds to build theaters? Now that "Man Jianghong" has caused a sensation, presumably wealthy businessmen all over the country will find a way to get in touch with An Yi and make a fortune, and his nickname of the God of Wealth is not for nothing. ”

Cheng Ziqing was unwilling, but helpless, and made up his mind after a while: "Okay, I will find a way to send someone to contact him and see if we can work together to make a fortune." Now that the opium and white-faced business is monopolized by Uncle Du, the brothers in our family are not having a good time, and it seems that it is time to compromise. ”

Huang Jinrong nodded with satisfaction: "That's good." By the way, when I go to see him, it's best to mention it and see if we can build sound cinemas in Suzhou and Hangzhou to screen movies produced by Oriental Film Company. I watched that the situation of the Shanghai Tang film circle without a leader will come to an end, and without their generosity, it will be difficult for the film to come out. ”

After saying that, Huang Jinrong closed his eyes slightly, leaned on the backrest and pretended to sleep.

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At this time, An Yi didn't know about the grand occasion of the hot screening of "Man Jianghong", or even if he knew, he didn't take it to heart. After half a month of silent efforts by him and his brothers, the headquarters of the Fifth Army finally completed its establishment under the cover of the overwhelming political controversy and the flames of war that raged everywhere in China.

At midnight on January 10, the 19th year of the Republic of China, an ordinary 300-ton river passenger ship sent An Yi and his party to the Yichang wharf, and before that, the weapons and equipment of the three divisions and 3 million rounds of ammunition of various kinds had been quietly transported to the transit stations of the two corps in Jingzhou and Yichang, and the 44th Division of Gu Changfeng, which was stationed in Shashi, had completed the refitting and artillery regiment configuration seven days ago, and the whole division began its one-month actual combat exercise.

More than a dozen senior generals, including He Guoguang, director of the Yichang camp, and Zeng Guangqing, secretary general, gathered together to listen to the report on the situation in the theater by Zhao Rui, chief of staff of the corps.

Zhao Rui, who had accumulated rich experience in several battles, appeared strong and calm, spoke clearly and calmly with a slight Shandong accent, and completed the transmission of the relevant orders and plans of the Central Military Commission and the summary of the national war situation in only 10 minutes.

Zhang Hongluan, Deng Bin, deputy commander of the 44th Army, and Zhang Cunzhuang, chief of staff, who had just received the letter of appointment of deputy commander of the Fifth Army signed by Chiang Kai-shek before the meeting, sat in the lower right position of An Yi, and the commander of the battalion He Guoguang, the secretary general Zeng Kuanqing, and the commander of the 51st Division, Fan Shisheng, and other division commanders at the bottom left, stared intently at the map of the Shuo War Zone due north, and everyone's attention turned with Zhao Rui's concise explanation.

“…… According to the intelligence departments of the 16th, 17th, and 51st divisions, and in combination with the verification of the intelligence department of the headquarters over the past week, it has been fully proved that the operational direction of the five divisions of the Northwest Army is exactly the line from the north of our Fifth Theater to the northwest, and in particular, the sudden occupation of Laohekou, which is maintained by only one militia regiment in northern Hubei on New Year's Day, is enough to prove to us that the Northwest Army's tentative action has begun.

Because the important places such as Zhumadian, Suiping, and Yuncheng on the Eastern Front were completely conquered by our Second Army Corps, and Tang Shengzhi's Division, which was already at the end of the strong crossbow under heavy encirclement, fell apart from then on, and the Northwest Army was afraid of our army's offensive and political influence, and did not carry out further military occupation of our Fifth Army Corps' defense area, it is expected that before the other party's ** alliance is formed, the Northwest Army will not launch a large-scale military offensive against our Fifth Theater, and our Fifth Army Corps will be able to have at least 20 days of strategic preparation time. After Zhao Rui finished explaining, he returned to his original position and sat down, handing over the right to speak to Commander An Yi.

An Yi politely said to He Guoguang: "Please introduce the political situation in western Hubei and the surrounding areas. ”

He Guoguang nodded and put on reading glasses: "Ladies and gentlemen, our western Hubei is still a stable place, but the continuous changes in the surrounding areas have made the situation in the entire theater tend to be tense, since January 1 Liu Wenhui held a meeting in Chengdu to welcome Wang (Zhaoming) and fight against Chiang (Zhongzheng), the situation in central Sichuan has changed suddenly, and the three major military forces have shown signs of rapid splitting.

According to the information reported by the Central Party Headquarters, the Henan-Shaanxi-Gansu region was starving all over the wilderness, but no less than two million people died of starvation in Shaanxi Province, and because the Northwest Army blocked the road of the hungry people to the south of western Hubei, the people in Henan, Shaanxi, and Gansu were boiling and rioting continuously, and the reason why the Northwest Army did not take further action after completing the military test to occupy Laohekou was to a large extent because of the popular riots in southwest Henan and southern Shaanxi. ”

The generals nodded frequently and agreed with He Guoguang's analysis, He Guoguang took off his glasses and continued: "Based on the above reasons, the camp also agrees with Chief of Staff Zhao's opinion, and the preliminary prediction is that the Northwest Army will have no time to move south within a month, and all units of the camp will seize the time to closely cooperate with the various military operations of the Fifth Army Corps, and vigorously cooperate in all aspects such as intelligence collection, political propaganda, combat mobilization, and material requisition. ”

An Yi took the lead in applauding and thanking him, and when the applause fell, he made a request to Zeng Guangqing: "Senior brother, can you apply through the Party Affairs Office and the Political Office of the Xingying to request the Central Party Department to mobilize all the political forces that can be mobilized in the northwest to launch a huge anti-hunger and anti-warlord propaganda campaign in Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Tongguan, Xi'an, Xianyang and other counties and cities?" Taking advantage of the growing grievances of the vast number of intellectuals, students, and businessmen, he launched a vigorous political denunciation against the warlords in the northwest, encouraged the victims to break through the blockade line of the Northwest Army and go south to western Hubei, and then exerted pressure on the garrisons of the Northwest Army along the way, striving to open one or two life-saving channels for transporting relief grain and medicine to Gansu, Shaanxi, and western Henan, so as to play the role of winning the hearts of the people and disintegrating the Northwest Army. ”

The generals immediately began to discuss, and Zeng asked worriedly: "If millions of victims go south again, will we be able to cope with it?" We are not worried about military maintenance, but about the enormous pressure on food, medicine, clothing and resettlement. ”

"These are not big problems, the grain purchased from the United States in the past half month has been successively transported to Pukou, Hukou, Wuhan and other places in Nanjing, and another 70,000 tons of flour and corn will be delivered to the military stations and garrison warehouses in Jingzhou, Yichang, and Xiangxi counties within half a month. According to our preliminary calculations, if the victims of the disaster in the northwest can go south, it will not exceed 500,000 at most, not to mention whether the garrisons in various parts of the northwest will continue to blockade and obstruct them, but only that under such cold weather and a long way to escape, it is estimated that less than 30 percent of the victims will be able to enter Xiangxi alive. ”

An Yi felt sad in his heart, and his voice was not loud, but it made the generals sigh, but he also saw the wonderful trick from An Yi's strategy - attacking the heart and causing chaos to the enemy.

Zeng Guangqing exchanged views with He Guoguang in a low voice for a moment, then turned to An Yi and replied loudly: "After the meeting, the Political Department of the camp immediately drew up a specific report and submitted it to the Central Party Department, this strategy is feasible, if it is done well, the Northwest Army will lose the people's will without a fight and will be in chaos, I believe that the Central Party Department and the Commander-in-Chief will agree to this plan and fully cooperate with it." ”

An Yi turned to the director of the Political Division, Zhan Dao, and the director of the Intelligence Division, Liu Qing: "After the meeting, please draft an application message and directly submit a request to Secretary-General Chen Lifu in the name of the headquarters to cooperate with the action. ”

"Yes!"

Zhan Zhi and Liu Qing replied in unison.

An Yi asked Zhang Hongluan, He Guoguang and others on the left and right if they had anything to add, and seeing that everyone was unanimous and had nothing to say, he straightened his spine and solemnly glanced at the congregation:

"Ladies and gentlemen, since the task of our Fifth Army Corps is rather special, and the Yichang camp is also shouldering an important mission, and all the preparations being made at present are work that can only be done but cannot be said, therefore, I request that all departments of the camp stop all propaganda on military affairs from now on, let alone make any comments on the garrisons in various places.

From now on, all armies and divisions under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Army Corps will stop accepting all requests for interviews, and will strictly prohibit local officials, journalists, and representatives of various organizations from entering the military administrative zone, and all armies, divisions, and garrison headquarters will set up a special investigation department under the responsibility of the chief of staff starting tomorrow to launch a rapid, secret, and stern counter-espionage operation within their own jurisdiction, with the consent and guidance of the political department and intelligence department of the headquarters, and all those involved in the case will be involved regardless of which region, department, force, or even country they belong toGeneral Yin Jinan's Yichang Water Garrison Brigade will fully cooperate with the actions of all armies and divisions, and dispatch eight anti-smuggling speedboats along the Yangtze River to escort and transport them.

Ladies and gentlemen, if there are any difficulties and needs, you can discuss and resolve them with the heads of all departments of the headquarters after the meeting, and the headquarters will provide maximum support in all aspects such as funds, materials, and transportation to ensure the efficient completion of the unified operation. ”

After listening to An Yi's unquestionable serious words, they all remembered their negligence in anti-espionage for more than half a year, and at the same time they knew very well that An Yi's strategy was to use a rare month to low-key adopt the strategy of purging internal active combat readiness, and a month later, I am afraid that a big war will come.

It was two o'clock in the morning when the meeting ended, and the participating generals left one after another, An Yi invited Zhang Hongluan and the three of them, Yin Jinan, and Gu Changfeng to the living room in the backyard, and set up a simple meal while continuing to discuss.

After discussing the military affairs and the situation of the victims in Xiangxi, Zhang Hongluan proudly informed An Yi:

"Since November last year, Xiangxi's various taxes have grown steadily, and the wealthy gentry in various counties have also set up workshops for processing wood, grain, cotton and linen, and the expansion of highways has also caused many people to buy cars and trucks, and the tax administration bureau of the Xiangxi Pacification Office has reached 1.3 million yuan in monthly income from banning smoking and anti-smuggling alone, and with the addition of industrial and commercial taxes and forestry and animal husbandry taxes, it has broken through the 2 million yuan mark in monthly income, providing sufficient funds for the road construction of our army and Xiangxi.

By the beginning of the spring of next year, a large number of private workshops will enter the tax period, and the Xiaoxiang cigarette factory, two thermal power plants, and three smelters will be built and put into operation, and the entire tax revenue will be doubled. ”

An Yi was so happy that he applauded, Gu Changfeng, who had already grown a beautiful mustache, said with a smile: "The territory of the predecessors is a place of long-term recuperation and recuperation, and it is different from the stations of the divisions of the juniors, and the juniors have only been in Jingzhou for a month, and they can get a monthly stationing subsidy of 50,000 yuan from the local government, which is unbelievable in other places in the middle and lower reaches, but it is not as good as the Yichang waterway occupied by Jinan, and the 16th Division and the Yichang Garrison Command can squeeze more than 1.6 million yuan in taxes every month from the anti-smoking and anti-smuggling and goods transit tax. Yesterday afternoon, the younger generation came to Yichang, from boarding the dock to entering the headquarters in Jinan, the soldiers seen along the way were all upright and coaxing, it seems that not only eat well and drink well but also have a big increase in income, which makes people red-eyed! ”

Everyone laughed, and Yin Jinan hurriedly explained: "Don't talk nonsense, 75% of the monthly tax will be delivered to the old Nanchang Dao Uncle on time, and the twelve new patrol speedboats added in the past few months have also been paid from it, and the more than 30,000 brothers of the 16th Division and the garrison of the younger brother are all in normal military ranks like everyone, and the only benefit is to eat better." ”

An Yi said to Gu Changfeng: "One of the biggest reasons why the brothers under the command of Jinan have such a good mental state is that they have always implemented the spirit of the model battalion and unremittingly strengthened political and ideological education, which needs to be strengthened by the newly formed 44th Division.

Seven days later, the headquarters will organize an inspection team to Jingzhou to inspect and evaluate the work of your 44 th Division and General Fan Xiaoquan's 51 st Division, and bring 100,000 yuan of condolence money. ”

Everyone laughed, but Gu Changfeng knew that An Yi was serious, and today's meeting impressed Gu Changfeng deeply, he understood that with the growth of the army, An Yi's status and means have also reached a new level.