Chapter 14: The Truth About Nanjing
If he didn't have the ability to make a living, then moving into the villa would be tantamount to giving up the relief of the refugee shelter, and thirty-six children and nine teenagers would be without food and clothing. But the living conditions in the villa will at least be much stronger than now, not to mention the reputation of Qing Xiaoyi.
Several teenagers were also indecided, arguing back and forth, Chu Ke said: "Let Sister Xiaoyi decide for herself!" If Sister Xiaoyi decides to move, we will follow. Besides, if Mr. Yu really becomes our brother-in-law, it shouldn't be difficult for us to find a position to earn a living with Mr. Yu's ability. β
Qing Xiaoyi was still a little blushing, but when she heard this, she frowned and said, "Since the name has been decided, then it is only right for me to move over." It's just that since I moved over, I can be regarded as a member of the Yu family. Although it is natural to help your younger brothers, you must always ask Brother Yu. β
The rest of the teenagers didn't care about what Qing Xiaoyi said, they just coaxed: "Sister Xiaoyi blushes!" β
"Brother Night, girls are outgoing, Sister Xiaoyi is ready to be in charge......"
The teenagers were in a commotion, and Qing Xiaoyi couldn't fight back, so she was ashamed, and ran away as soon as she stomped her feet. The teenagers began to pack their things and prepare to move to the villa for the rest of their lives.
Yu Sheng didn't mind the teenagers moving into his villa, anyway, even if he wanted to live, only the little dog would accompany him, which was really lonely. However, all teenagers and children who move in must be groomed and dressed neatly according to the standards of the rest of their lives. There are absolutely no lice or jumping or anything, hidden in those tattered clothes and hair that has not been washed for an unknown amount of time, and brought into the villa.
As for the tattered clothes and quilts that the boys and children carried with them, they were burned in the furnace for the rest of their lives. I bought them new ones, two sets per person. These refugee teenagers and children were reluctant to give up at first, but they did not give in for the rest of their lives. As a woman, Qing Xiaoyi originally loved to be clean, and at this time, she set a name with the rest of her life, and after knowing the good habits of the rest of her life, she naturally supported it.
Moreover, for the rest of his life, not only did he distribute clothes and quilts to all the children and teenagers, but also all kinds of daily necessities, which were distributed according to the person. New two-tier beds were purchased, and several empty rooms in the villa were converted into dormitories for children and teenagers according to the standards of militarized management. It costs a lot of money, and the conditions are countless times better than in refugee shelters. Teenagers and children are not used to it, but they really have nothing to complain about.
Qing Xiaoyi has a very high prestige among children, and things go much smoother. By the time the teenagers and 36 children moved into the villa, their image and temperament had taken on a new look.
The movement of dozens of refugees moving from the shelter into the villa has already alarmed the newspaper. Since the Japanese occupied Shanghai and a large number of refugees poured into the concession, I have only heard that the refugees have to enter the refugee shelter after breaking their heads, but I have not heard of any refugee willing to leave the camp on their own initiative. There are dozens of them on this walk, and they are all children, and they live in garden houses, which naturally attracts the attention of major public opinion and newspapers.
The paparazzi of this era are already very professional. actually secretly took photos of Qing Xiaoyi taking a few children in and out of the villa for the rest of his life, and compared with the photos of Yu Sheng singing love songs on the street a few days ago, the context of the matter is naturally about to come out.
As a result, the tabloid that made Yu Sheng hate so much appeared again, and it was still the headline - "The talented man met a beautiful woman for the rest of his life, and they lived together in three days!" γ
As soon as the tabloid came out, the name of the rest of his life spread to the beach. At this time, the entertainment industry in the Shanghai Tang Concession was extremely prosperous. The world is too heavy, so there are too many people who need a spiritual sustenance. And this celebrity's affair is the best conversation for all kinds of people after dinner.
The gossip of Yu Sheng spread so quickly that the film shooting task was completed on this day, and when Yu Sheng returned home, he found several reporters waiting outside the villa with cameras and notebooks.
As soon as the reporters saw Yu Sheng's arrival, they flocked to him and asked, "Mr. Yu, I am a reporter from Dahua Evening News, what is the name of the young lady who lives with you?" How did you meet? Can you tell us a little bit about it? β
"Mr. Yu, I am a reporter from Yinghe Daily, what is the name of your new song? What is the value of copyright? β
"Mr. Yu, is it stressful for you to adopt so many refugee children? What is your purpose in adopting so many refugee children? Is it just for the young lady who lives with you? β
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A few children looked at the door of the villa, and Yu Sheng waved them back to the villa, and then said, "Gentlemen, before I give you an interview, can I ask you a question?" β
"......" The reporters were stunned for a moment. Looking at this attitude, the rest of my life is more like a reporter than them.
"Do you still recruit newsboys? I think the children I've adopted should be up to the task. β
"Mr. Yu rest assured, there is no limit to the number of newsboys in our newspaper, as long as you sell newspapers, you will have income!" It was a reporter from Dahua Daily who spoke. Although the records of several other newspaper reporters were fast, most of them also echoed, "Mr. Yu, rest assured, our newspaper recruits are open-ended. β
Yu Sheng nodded and smiled: "Then thank you very much!" I also understood what everyone was asking. I can tell you that the woman who lives in my villa is my fiancΓ©e. Since I was a child, I have received traditional Chinese culture education, and I am afraid that I will have scruples about this way of becoming famous. So, there's a lot of ** sex stuff that I won't answer. β
"The song I sang after I got drunk that day was a new song I recently wrote, called "Rouge Buckle". However, this song is not actually suitable for men to sing, so I will sell the rights to this song in the near future. After all, marrying a daughter-in-law also requires a bride price! β
Yu Sheng made a lukewarm joke, and the reporters laughed in unison.
At this time, a reporter suddenly asked: "Mr. Yu, I heard that you fled from Nanjing, is this news true?" β
Yu Sheng glanced at the reporter, it was a middle-aged man, although there was curiosity in his eyes, but there was no provocation. It doesn't seem to be malicious. Yu Sheng hesitated for a moment, feeling that although the fact that he had fled from Nanjing to this place might attract the attention of the Japanese, it would not be conducive to the plan of hiding and revenge. But with so many people fleeing from other places to the Shanghai Concession, it is not too conspicuous to think of it.
He replied, "That's right, I came here from Nanjing." I drifted in the river for more than ten hours before I arrived at Shanghai Beach, and I was lucky to escape! β
There was an uproar among the reporters! They all asked, "Since Mr. Yu came to Shanghai from Nanjing, can you tell you about the situation in Nanjing?" β
After the Japanese captured Nanjing on December 13, 1937, they carried out the Nanjing Massacre in Nanjing, which lasted for six weeks! During this period, countless crimes such as murder, arson, and robbery were committed. Until later generations, the bones of the bones that were buried by the Japanese on a large scale in the city of Nanjing continued to be excavated. Some people were buried alive!
Since December 13, 1937, the Japanese army has blockaded the city of Nanjing. Only a small number of media in Japan will report some high-level positive news, and only a few foreigners will record the sorrow and pain of the death of 300,000 Chinese and leave information.
By the time order was gradually restored to Nanjing, it was already mid-February 1938. At this time, the press in Shanghai only learned about the situation in Nanjing through some gossip, but they did not know the details except that many people had died in Nanjing. When I met the rest of my life, I was naturally very interested.
Yu Sheng said: "If you are interested in the current situation in Nanjing and the atrocities committed by the Japanese, then I will tell you my personal experience and some of the truths I have learned from other sources. However, in order to protect the person concerned, please do not ask the source. β
Yu Sheng's expression was solemn, his tone was solemn, and the reporters didn't say much, and he only listened to the rest of his life except for the "swish" sound recorded quickly in the notebook.
"On December 12, 1937, the first division of the Japanese Sixth Division broke through to the Zhonghua Gate but failed to penetrate, and the rest of the walled positions were still in the hands of the squadron. Sun Yuanliang, commander of the 88th Division, who was responsible for defending Zhonghua Gate, took part of his troops to escape from Xiaguan without authorization, and although he was dissuaded from returning by Song Xilian, commander of the 36th Division, it had already caused chaos in the city.
In the afternoon, Tang Shengzhi hastily summoned the generals above the division level to arrange the retreat. According to the retreat arrangement, except for the 36th Division, which covered the headquarters and the troops directly under the command to cross the river from Xiaguan, all other units had to break through from the front, but Tang Shengzhi was worried that the descendants of the Central Army would lose too much in the breakthrough, so he verbally ordered the 87th Division, the 88th Division, the 74th Army, and the Teaching Corps to 'if they can't all break through, they can cross the river when there is a ferry', and this contradictory order made the retreat of the squadron even more chaotic.
However, only the 66th Army and the 83rd Army, which belonged to the Cantonese system, broke through to the front under the leadership of army commanders Ye Zhao and Deng Longguang, and successfully broke through the Japanese encirclement after paying a huge price, and Luo Cequn, the acting commander of the 159th Division, was killed in battle.
Most of the other commanders did not fully communicate the retreat to the lower levels, so they left their troops behind and fled to the river in pre-controlled boats. When these troops heard that the commander had retreated to Xiaguan, they thought that the riverside was ready to retreat, so they abandoned their positions and rushed to the area around Xiaguan.
The 36th Division, which was responsible for blockading the Rujiang Gate, did not receive an order to allow the troops to retreat, and clashed with the troops retreating from the city to Xiaguan, and many were killed or trampled to death.
On the evening of the 12th, Tang Shengzhi and the members of the headquarters fled from the Xiaguan Coal Port to Jiangbei on a small steamer reserved in advance, after which about 5,000 people from the 1st Division of the 74th Army and the 36th Division also crossed the river by boat from the coal port, and the 1st Division of the 88th Division and the 156th Division crossed the river in wooden boats under their control at Xiaguan. The Chinese defenders who had fled to Shimonoseki had lost their formation and became a chaotic straggler, some of whom had crossed the river on their own rafts, and many were drowned or shot in the river by the arriving Japanese troops. In the early morning of the 13th, the river was full of corpses, and the river was red. β
"In the early morning of the 13th, the Japanese entered the city and carried out an indiscriminate massacre of the Chinese ** people and civilians who had laid down their arms. In addition to normal machine-gun fire and mass burial, there are countless methods of humiliation and killing. There is no distinction between young and old, young and old, and the situation of young children and women is particularly tragic. β
"As far as I know, the Japanese invaders used more than 100 methods to kill people, which can be described as a collection of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign cruel methods. Such as shooting, knife splitting, beheading, bayonet stabbing, guillotine decapitation, burying alive, flooding, unloading eight pieces, five horses dividing the corpse, two horses splitting the corpse, stabbing the anus, disemboweling, peeling people, electric grinding powder, boiling in fire and boiling, cold living people, iron nails through the top, iron pot stewed people, limbs nailed to the wall, random knife drawing, dissecting children, dissecting living people, poison gas killing, bacteriological experiments, using people as targets (practicing assassination or shooting), throwing cloth bags (people put into sacks and repeatedly beaten to death), gouging out eyes, cutting ears, cutting tongues, chopping hands, chopping feet, lighting sky lanterns, Riding an airplane (a person sits on a grenade and detonates it), roasting a living person, rolling a nail tube, a military dog biting to death, a military dog dance (a group of dogs biting a living person), a gun stabbing and killing a baby, a boiled baby, a baby being inserted upside down in a paddy field, a baby falling to death, a child being split in half by hand, and so on. Some Japanese officers and men went so far as to kill people to drink blood, eat hearts and livers, and eat human brains, kill people to sacrifice military horses, kill people to feed horses, and fill ditches and cross military vehicles with living people......
Yu Sheng's tone was calm, and when he was talking, all the written materials and images he saw in the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre of the Japanese Invasion of China in his later life, and all the materials he had seen in the past, all came to mind clearly.
What he told was naturally not only the Nanjing seen by Yu Sheng in this life, but also the truth of the invasion that was denied and concealed by the Japanese after decades of research and research by later generations of scholars.
Sorrow and pain go deep into the bone marrow, the undercurrent is turbulent and the surface is calm. When the reporters heard this, they all held their breath.
And according to the brutality of the Japanese invaders, it did not stop there. According to the Tokyo Daily Shimbun, two Japanese officers engaged in a 'killing race'. With the encouragement of their commanders, two second lieutenants of the Nakajima Unit of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, Toshiaki Mukai and Takeshi Noda, agreed with each other on a 'killing contest' and agreed that whoever would kill more than 100 people first would be the winner when they occupied Nanjing. They killed from Jurong to Tangshan, Mukai Toshiaki killed eighty-nine people, and Noda Takeshi killed seventy-eight people, and because they were all less than 100, the 'competition' continued. By noon on December 10, the two met at the foot of the Purple Mountain, and each other's sabers had been cut off. Noda killed one hundred and five people, and Mukai killed one hundred and six. Since it was not clear who had killed 100 people first, it was decided that the competition would be a rematch of who would kill 150 Chinese. β
"This report is both illustrated and written, and in Japan, Toshiaki Mukai and Takeshi Noda are known as the heroes of the Imperial Army."
According to statistics - the Japanese army carried out about 28 mass murders in Nanjing, killing about 190,000 Chinese! There were about 858 scattered massacres, killing about 150,000 Chinese! The Japanese army carried out a six-week massacre in Nanjing, and more than 300,000 Chinese people died. β
All the reporters are Chinese, and in the Shanghai Tang Concession, although there are many minions such as the Zodiac Society in Japan, the anti-Japanese sentiment is still extremely strong. Therefore, in the entire period of Shanghai Island, there was not a single article praising the Japanese, and there was not a single movie praising the Japanese!
Therefore, after hearing the specific information about the Nanjing Massacre given by Yu Sheng, the reporters in public couldn't help but be filled with righteous indignation. I have long forgotten that the purpose of my coming is just to gossip. However, with a detailed description of the Nanjing Massacre for the rest of his life, it is enough to explain to the editor and the boss.
The reporter of "Dahua Daily" is a man in his thirties, and after recording the description of Yu Sheng in detail, he said to Yu Sheng: "Mr. Yu, you can rest assured that the historical truth cannot be concealed, and the shame of the country cannot be forgotten. Tomorrow no matter what, my "Dahua" will also be out of the number. Let everyone know the truth, work together for the country, and fight against Japan together! β
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Before writing this chapter, I had seen a lot of documentaries and historical materials. After reading it, I really didn't feel good. Also, there's another chapter in a moment.