Washington, USA.

Ever since the atomic bomb was detonated in Japan, the American people, who have been in full sense of crisis, have felt an unprecedented crisis, as if the Pacific Ocean was no longer enough to stop the enemy, and at a time when tensions were high with the political axe and the military, the people have unprecedentedly consciously joined in the demonstrations to "defend the United States from nuclear attack."

People gather in squares and parks every day, and there are even daily demonstrations on time and in batches, proclaiming slogans.

Rosenberg was an employee of a Citibank street office, and although the war affected thousands of households, the employees' jobs were relatively stable and their incomes were relatively objective compared to giants like Citibank.

It's just that, since the atomic bomb exploded in Yuben, his work has become less stable and comfortable, at least, he senses a crisis, and this crisis has spread to the whole of Citibank.

People began to panic, and this is the root of all crises.

Even in the worst moments of war, such as the defeat of the Pacific War, the defeat of the Southeast Asian War, the repeated defeats of Europe, and even the defeat of the Far East, the American people did not show the same anxiety and panic as they do today.

The American people know very well that the United States is blessed with a unique geographical advantage, and that there is no enemy in the whole of America that can be confronted.

Since the founding of the United States of America, the American people have enjoyed a life like a paradise. Internally, the economy and free trade were developed internally, and the external expansion was limited, and semi-closed conservatism had to be deeply involved in international affairs until large-scale industrialization deepened and products were enriched.

From the end of the struggle for colonies, to the pinnacle victory in World War I, to the high posture in the early stage of World War II, the American people fully felt the supreme feeling of dominating a continent.

When World War I broke out, people in Eurasia and Africa were terrified, the American people laughed at the strongest war ever fought by mankind. As a result, the United States intervened at the most critical moment, and the American GIs saved the world and defeated the Germans.

World War II began, the American people who made a lot of money in World War I cheered, the same world war, the same Germany initiated, the same huge world war in history, the American political axe and the people in the heart of the hope, ah, this will be a great opportunity to make money.

As a result, the outbreak of the Pacific War directly dragged the United States into the quagmire early, and the participation of the Chinese as enemies completely dispersed the arrogance of the United States.

However, at these times, the American people did not panic, because there is always victory and defeat in war, and as long as the homeland is separated from the enemy by the ocean, the great United States will not be defeated.

Unfortunately, the Far East was lost, and China and the United States were recently separated only by a narrow Bering Strait. The Chinese Pacific Fleet is unprecedentedly powerful, and the huge aircraft carrier battle group has surrounded the American people's Freedom Fleet again and again, and the latest situation is that even Pearl Harbor is in danger of being lost again. Of course, after the Chinese punched with the combination of strategic bombers and atomic bombs, the Americans saw that it was not good, and panic began to spread.

Compared with the usual 8 o'clock in the morning, Rosenberg has been working early these days, and even came to the bank business hall at 6 o'clock in the morning today, because the crowd is about to burst the bank door.

"Don't squeeze, don't worry! Line up!! ”

Through the thick walls of the solid business hall, through the bars, Rosen saw the crowd outside, and he heard the security guards whispering, 'At least 500 meters long, God, these damn guys......

The bank's managers were also there to maintain order hoarsely, hiding behind the police and security guards, shouting that the bank's cash was still sufficient, that Citibank would maintain the people's demand for cash withdrawals, and that "the free American political axe will keep everyone's deposits safe and our gold reserves ......"

However, the response he got was this:

"Shit, politicians and bankers should die, I just want my money!!"

"Damn war, I'm going to take the money out to buy food and medicine!!"

"It's better to believe in a dog than to believe in a political axe and a bank."

"We're going to cash out!!"

…… People waved their arms angrily, and their hands were clutching the various newspapers of the day, all of which were the latest bad news, yes bad news.

Some young people even jumped onto the side lampposts and shouted at the hundreds of meters long withdrawal procession: "The latest news, the US political axe has rejected the negotiation preconditions for unilateral and unconditional surrender proposed by the Chinese political axe, damn the American political axe, they want us to taste the taste of the atomic bomb......

"The latest news, the political axe announced that it accepted the 'X preconditions for the unconditional surrender of the political axe' put forward by the Chinese political axe. Oh God, damn American political axe, Emperor Motomoto and the military department personally announced the hunt for militarists and war criminals, and they even openly arrested those war criminals who survived the Sino-Japanese War, and behold, God, the sincerity of my surrender was enough to shame Truman's stupid pig......"

“…… Oh God, damn American political axe, look at this one...... According to internal information disclosed to this newspaper by dissatisfied officials of the military headquarters, they have so far arrested 26 division commanders, 56 officers at or above the rank of lieutenant, and more than 15,000 militarists and junior officers...... God, they even broke out in Osaka in a rebellion and a war of rebellion, which ended in the surrender of the besieged division, and the diehards of the military headquarters committed suicide by disembowelment......"

"God, everyone looks at the sincerity of the political axe, their people don't want war, they don't want atomic bombs, they would rather surrender. Look at the damned Truman, the damned American political axe, they rejected the negotiating premise of unconditional surrender, they wanted war, they wanted the great American people to taste the Chinese atomic bomb. ……”

"We must not let them get their wish, we have to take out the money from the bank, rush out the food and medicine in the store, everything that can be used, and we have to prepare for the winter......"

"Withdraw money, withdraw money ......"

"Withdraw money, withdraw money ......"

"Withdraw money, withdraw money ......"

Rosen, a public relations manager, is responsible for this sudden financial situation, and he can't help but frown when he hears and sees all this outside.

I can't help but sigh in my heart: the American people, who have always prided themselves on being gentlemen, also have such crazy times.

The situation is getting worse and worse, the first day of the run was only a little more than 100 meters long, but the following days are growing day by day, and it exceeded 500 meters early this morning.

He knew that the US political axe's rejection of the negotiating premise of unconditional surrender and the positive surrender of the political axe had caused a new impact on the current situation, but his intuition and what he had seen and heard in the past few days told him that there seemed to be another hand pushing everything behind all this.

"Hi, Rosen."

When Lawson returned to the office, he actually saw Paul, a plainclothes policeman in charge of the area.

Paul is an excellent plainclothes policeman, and recently the financial order has been seriously chaotic and the people are panicking, so he was sent to this area to be responsible for secretly reconnoitring and maintaining order.

Paul was also tired enough, his face was also very bad, and even a few bruises on his face, and his clothes were even more messy like a beggar, and when he saw Rosen, he complained, "I swear, Rosen, some of them recognized me, just now when I was lining up with the line, a group of hooligans even rushed up and beat me, and they shouted in my ear to tell me that the beating was the dogleg of the police station standing on the opposite side of the American people......"

“……”

Hearing Paul's complaint, Rosen couldn't help but be dumbfounded, when was it so normal for the police to be beaten? Moreover, the plainclothes police station was violently beaten by the underworld on the street, and dared to openly tell that 'it was the police who beat it', this world has really changed.

"Then you should go back to the police station right now and tell your boss about this, maybe you need support, for example, to arrest those thugs."

"These damn thugs, they snatched my gun, and I needed a reason to make my superiors realize that it was a fact, not my incompetence. So, I need your help to help me testify. Paul said depressedly.

"Yes, no problem." To Paul's surprise, this friend, who grew up on a small street, easily agreed.

"Hey, tell you a damn thing."

Paul pulled Rosen and said, "Two days ago when I was patrolling plainclothes on Locke Street, I found some people encouraging the citizens, I followed up and investigated, and after the march and the chaos was over, they actually went to unknown people to collect commissions, yes, damn it, they actually received commissions. ”

"What, there's such a thing??"

Rosen was shocked, he didn't expect to hear such news from this plainclothes policeman, which coincided with his guess.

"Yes, but damn it, God, I swear you don't know what's next."

Paul said angrily, "I took one of them back to the police station, and the others ran away. I explained their activities to the police station, and as a result, they were taken to the police station in the morning, and I had lunch to see them being sent away by a sheriff himself......"

"Well, it's not the worst, the worst thing is that yesterday and today, I actually saw a few familiar people in the crowd in front of the bank, and my intuition told me that they were the same people who had participated in the run and the demonstrations on several other streets. My guess is that they take the lead in queuing up at the bank early in the morning, take the money to eat at noon, continue to lead the demonstration in the afternoon, take the money home in the evening, and continue the next day, damn it, I think that's the truth of all the clues...... But, Rosen, you know, it didn't work, Sheriff Spears told me that they were just too impulsive to express their displeasure with the political axe, and that if they were caught, it would be like San Francisco, and the mobbing would change from the bank and the political axe building to the police station, even if they were actually being used and organized...... The sheriff said that our strength is only necessary to maintain that they do not carry guns and reactionary, and do not kill people in the streets, set fire to and rob them......"

After listening to Paul's complaints, Rosen was completely stunned.

He even thought of one thing, his own brother Roddleberg has been a little abnormal recently, he seems to be very busy every day, today he dresses up as a worker, tomorrow he dresses up and becomes a teacher or other profession, sometimes he is in tatters, sometimes he dresses very formally, he seems to be very busy every day, but he never asks himself for money, but he readily supports himself and gives his mother a considerable amount of money.

Could it be that my brother is too...... Thinking of this, Rosen had a headache, he knew that these should not be thought about by himself, maybe the crowd queuing outside was what he needed to solve, even if some of them instigated and led the destruction of social order, what does it have to do with him?

After agreeing to Paul's testimony, Rosen walked out of the office and continued back to the front lobby, looking at the crowd that was said to have exceeded a thousand meters and the queue waiting for admission a few hundred meters in front of a nearby department store, he suddenly realized a terrible fact: after the march and demonstration, the run and panic buying have been staged, what next? Will it be a riot, or an anti-US government............ Rosen's fears were not wrong, at the same time, Washington, the White House.

Truman looked outside at the White House lawn, which was once again occupied by the crowd, and the military police who maintained order tried to expel the people, but the crowd broke through the blockade, and finally, after a few days of short absence, the people returned and occupied the American high ground that the enemy had never occupied.

Unconditional surrender is unacceptable to the US political axe, but the people use it to compare it with the fact that the political axe of the United States has accepted the unconditional surrender and actively cooperated.

He did not believe that the mainstream American people would not see the great harm of unconditional surrender, although he did admit that the atomic bomb panic was still spreading and far from over.

"Mr. President, according to our investigations, there are now some agitators in various places, who go early in the morning to take the lead in queuing up for money and rush to buy, congesting traffic, and in the afternoon they go to demonstrations and besiege government buildings.

And, they are paid on a daily basis. ”

A presidential deputy director of intelligence, Lubis, was briefing Truman on the current complications.

"Who's paying them? Have police stations taken any measures? ”

Truman asked.

"It's all the Americans who pay them, and there are no foreign powers, and they pay them on the grounds that 'all for the sake of America,' and they justify this behavior as doing good and spreading money......"

Truman: "......"

"In some places, arrests were carried out, but they were usually arrested in the morning and released in the afternoon, because there was no evidence, let alone a way to plant false accusations. In some places, some excuses were found to detain the suspects, but they were soon besieged by the demonstrators, and the police had to acquit the suspects on the spot......"

Truman: "Okay, I see. ”

After the deputy director of intelligence left, Truman turned and looked outside at the people on the White House lawn who were screaming, shouting, waving flags, and clashing with the military and police.

He was tempted to condemn the enemy who had done all this, after all, this enemy was very obvious to the wise politician, and although he hid in the backs of thousands of people, he felt deeply powerless.

The war, the panic of the atomic bomb, the defeat of the war, the skyrocketing prices, and the malicious instigation of the United States all gave the United States a sign of the worst, but the political axe could not make the people refuse the lure of dollars and gold bars, and perhaps the promise of emigration to the Chinese Empire.

"These damn beautiful anniversaries."

Truman muttered that he knew it was just beginning.

(To be continued)