Chapter 94: Thorn (2) (2nd Update)
It's just that such an action is not planned in advance, let alone retreated. After Lin Huaibu fired, the anger in his heart disappeared, and he realized that it was not good. When I wanted to turn around and run, I was surrounded by my original colleagues, and it was difficult to fly.
When the people in the military command heard the news, they were shocked and overjoyed. Originally, they approached Lin Huaibu to make Lin Huaibu surrender to him by taking advantage of Zhang Xiaolin's harsh treatment of his subordinates, and then plan a complete plan to kill Zhang Xiaolin! Unexpectedly, Lin Huaibu was very righteous and helped them do all the work they should do.
Zhang Xiaolin's death had a great impact on the current situation, and Lao Jiang was very happy. In particular, when he heard that this matter was inseparable from the military command, he ordered a commendation. However, the Japanese suffered heavy losses, and Zhang Xiaolin was already the one with the highest status and the greatest power that the Japanese could win over in Shanghai. With the death of Zhang Xiaolin, the Japanese control over Shanghai Tang was greatly weakened, and those who originally intended to join the imperial army were also lost for a while.
Therefore, the Japanese hated Lin Huaibu to the core. After Lin Huaibu was arrested, he was not only punished in prison, but also sentenced to 15 years in prison because of the pressure exerted by the Japanese on the French Concession Board of Directors. It was not released until after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
At this time, the French Concession, and the French Board of Directors, although still nominally belonged to France. The lives of French expatriates and European and American expatriates have not changed much, but in fact, they are already puppets of the Japanese.
In fact, since May 1940, when the German army bypassed the heavily fortified Maginot Line and entered France, France was already doomed. Although during the evacuation of Dunkirk in May 1940, the French kept part of their troops and part of their belongings.
However, in June 1940, when Germany launched a general attack on France and the Italians began to take advantage of the fire, 1.5 million French soldiers surrendered and were captured. Basically equivalent to all the power of France. Therefore, on June 22, 1940, France surrendered and an armistice was signed between Germany and France. Such a quick surrender shocked the world!
In July 1940, the French parliament held a controversial vote in Vichy to grant Petain all legislative, judicial, executive, and diplomatic powers and elected him head of state. and imposed a fascist dictatorship. Sadly, after the establishment of the Vichy government in France, all countries except Britain recognized the Vichy government of France as the legitimate government of France.
Moreover, the Vichy government also had the support of a considerable part of the French population. They saw the Vichy government's compromise with the Germans and support for Nazism as a necessary means of preserving the independence and territorial integrity of France.
And in China, this is unthinkable. No matter how tired China is, once a foreign enemy invades, resistance to aggression is still the mainstream! As a France that has risen since the Renaissance, as a France that has not pulled the industrial revolution in modern times, as a France that once had Napoleon and the Sun King, and as a France with completely modern military equipment. Such a choice is really suffocating. It is not a question of weapons and strategy, but of the will to resist.
After the establishment of the Vichy government in France, the French Board of Directors, which was originally opposed to the Japanese. A treaty of friendship was immediately concluded with Japan, an ally of the Germans. The Japanese had begun to effectively take control of the French Concession.
Fortunately, the villa I bought for the rest of my life belonged to the Anglo-American public concession area. Otherwise, it will be difficult to find a place to stay this time. As a patrol officer who had a good impression of either the Japanese or the Germans, Cartres resigned when he learned that the Japanese were about to take charge of the board of directors.
Cattres was glad that he had listened to the rest of his life and had sent his family to neutral Switzerland. And after he resigned, he had nothing to do, so he had to go to Switzerland to reunite with his family. Before parting, he got drunk with the rest of his life. The rest of his life is also a little emotional, although the old truck weighs 300 pounds and is a Frenchman, but he is still really good. It's his first friend who traveled to this era.
So, the next day, after Catres sobered up on the ship to Switzerland, he found that he had an extra check in his arms. The number on the check is $200,000! According to the price at this time, this is already a huge amount of money enough for him and his family to have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives.
And for the rest of his life at this time, the wedding date is approaching, although Zhang Xiaolin's assassination case also surprised him. But after this incident, Nanzao Yunzi's surveillance of him and Chen Tian relaxed a lot. This made the rest of my life a lot more relaxed.
For the rest of his life, he had no experience of marriage in his past and present lives. Fortunately, the rest of his life when his soul was dead, there are all kinds of memories of when he married Ye Qingyu, all of which are traditional customs and details, which can be used for the rest of his life.
In this era, Western culture is moving eastward. Since 1934, when Chiang began to encourage the New Life Movement in order to unify the thinking of the people, important officials of various government departments in Shanghai have responded to Chiang's call to "make life artistic, life productive, and life militarized." While following courtesy, righteousness, honesty and traditional Chinese morality, many traditional Chinese customs have been eliminated as bad habits.
In 1935, the Shanghai municipal government came forward to hold a group wedding that met the standards of the old Jiang Xin Life Movement. Fifty-seven couples participated. The man wore a Western-style dress and the woman wore a white wedding dress. Lined up, it's very shocking. Wu Tiecheng, the mayor of Shanghai at the time, Wu Xingya, director of the Shanghai Social Bureau, and Du Yuesheng, the boss of the Shanghai Youth Gang, also participated. The impact is enormous.
With the attitude of the government in the first place and the social atmosphere in the back, Western-style weddings in Shanghai have become the mainstream. However, when Yu Sheng asked Ye Wuguang and Qing Xiaoyi, Ye Wuguang and Qing Xiaoyi still liked traditional Chinese weddings.
At this time, the influence of the Nationalist government was almost equal to none in Shanghai, and the New Life Movement was also stranded by the Anti-Japanese War. Even if he and Qing Xiaoyi hold a traditional wedding for the rest of their lives, no one will be blamed. Yu Sheng agreed.
It's just that the operation of this wedding should not be done in the light of night or for the rest of his life. In this era, there was no wedding company, so it was a mess. Fortunately, Zhang Shankun and a group of experienced people from Xinhua Company helped. I don't know how to prepare for the rest of my life.
Other things are easy to do, but there is only one thing that is not so easy to do. Qing Xiaoyi neither likes the traditional Chinese women's wedding dress, the single and dull clothing material, nor the pure white of the Western wedding dress. In other words, in China, white has never been the color used for marriage.
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