Chapter 217: The Battle of the Sparrows

When everyone heard the sound, they looked back and were shocked to find that it was Tony Downing, who was unconscious in everyone's mouth, who was in a wheelchair at the moment and was pushed here by Jimmy.

Kodama Yushi pointed at Tang Ning in horror and said, "You, you, aren't you about to die?" ”

Tang Ning coughed and said with a smile: "Brother Kodama, you are not dead, how can I be willing to die." ”

Sakurai saw that although Tang Ning's face was pale and his spirit was lacking, he was much better than the rumors, so he gently moved his steps to keep a certain distance from Kodama Yushifu, and then said with concern: "Oh, Mr. Tang Ning, your illness scared me, I really thought something happened to you, now when I look at it, I am relieved." ”

Tang Ning replied with a smile: "Maybe it's just that I was tired when I developed Guam before, so I slept for a few more days, but I was tired of Mr. Sakurai's concern." ”

Dashan and the others held back their excitement on the side and persuaded: "Boss, you have just recovered from this serious illness, so let's hurry back to the house, it's windy outside, don't get cold anymore." ”

Sakurai also hurriedly persuaded: "That's right, that's right, let's go in and talk." Speaking of which, Tony, your most important task lately is to take care of your health, and leave the rest to your subordinates, if you need to use our Osaka business group, just ask. ”

After returning to the bedroom, chatting with Sakurai for a while, Tang Ning arranged for Aoyama to receive Sakurai on the grounds that he needed to rest, and he returned to the bedroom to call everyone under his command over, and held a simple meeting: "There is something wrong with my body in the past few days, but fortunately, there is nothing serious, it is my old problem when I was a child, and it would be good to rest for a while, but it made everyone worry, and I came to see me." I would like to thank you all in advance. ”

Then he took a sip of water and continued: "I know that there may be some rumors of disharmony in the past few days, and I hope that everyone can do a good job of ideological work for the employees under them, eliminate the adverse effects as soon as possible, and devote their energy to their work." I'll take a break for the next two days and then I'll go around the places myself. Help you calm the public opinion. ”

Everyone said, boss, your body has just eased up, don't go around tiringly, this matter is with us, wait for a month or two and you will go around and scatter, in fact, as long as you are well, everyone will have the backbone, and things will be easy to do.

After settling the morale of the army. Tang Ning was forced to go to bed to rest by many doctors and Han Xuewei, Tang Ning saw that the overall situation had been decided, and there was no big problem for the time being, so he didn't refuse anymore and went back to rest, but he didn't want to lie down by himself anymore, so he called the little secretary Nanako over to accompany him to relieve his boredom, in fact, he was also comforting and lifting Nanako. Because the little secretary suffered a lot of grievances before.

Originally, Tang Ning wanted to ask Nanako about what had happened at home and abroad recently, so that he could make targeted deployments and plans. But Nanako had been told by the doctor many times before she came, and she must not tell Tang Ning about such a troublesome thing, so the little secretary pondered for a long time before picking out a very interesting thing that happened in China and talked about it.

"On April 19, the rooster crows and gets up, heroic people. Gear up. Inside and outside the city and countryside, the battle flag fluttered, earth-shattering, and gongs and drums sounded. Millions of people, one big war. Flocks of sparrows. Tired broken wings. All over the sky, all over the world. The corners of the tree are not allowed to hide. Day and night, open the bow and release the gun, the sparrow is extinct, and the stone returns to the warehouse. Although this poem looks inconspicuous, it was published in the "People's Daily", and this is a huge people's war that was launched in China at that time - the war of people and birds.

In fact, from March to May, the great leaders called for the elimination of sparrows, one of the four evils, at the central work conferences held in Chengdu, Wuhan, and Guangzhou, as well as at the second session of the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. He said: "The way is to make up our minds, act in unison, divide the dry work, close the grain, cast a net of heaven and earth, and fight a continuous war of annihilation. Sparrows are included in the "four pests". Mobilize the people, and the whole people will start to destroy the sparrows, and they will want to kill them all, kill their species, and destroy their species, and they will not withdraw their troops until they win a complete victory! Not only did the People's Daily publish the poem, but even Guo Moruo, then president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, wrote a poem "Curse the Sparrow", and Zhou Jianren (Lu Xun's brother), a biologist who was then vice minister of education, also wrote an article in the Beijing Daily, saying: "There is no doubt that sparrows are harmful birds", and criticized those who oppose the eradication of sparrows as "obedient people in nature" and "equilibrium theory". Su Buqing, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a mathematician, the news photo of him banging on the basin to drive away sparrows has become the silhouette of that fiery era.

As a result, an unprecedented and vigorous battle of human sparrows began. People used all kinds of weapons, bamboo poles, red flags, firecrackers, stones, slingshots, gongs and drums, trumpets, washbasins, air guns, dummies, straw men, regardless of the old and children, whether workers, peasants, cadres, students, soldiers, all into battle. For a time, the red flag fluttered, the gongs and drums were noisy, the firecrackers rang out, and the good news was frequent:

On the day of the operation, 3 million people in the capital Beijing were mobilized. On that day, the "General Headquarters for Encirclement and Suppression of Sparrows" sent 30 motorcycles to "reconnoitre" everywhere. City and district commanders and deputy commanders are in separate commands of operations. In the "war zone" of the Temple of Heaven, more than 30 marksmen were ambushed in the annihilation zone, and 966 sparrows were annihilated in one day, of which 40% were exhausted. In the poison bait trapping area of the Chengshou Temple Production Station in Nanyuan East Blacksmith Camp Township, 400 sparrows were poisoned within two hours. A total of 2,000 residents in the Taoranting area of Xuanwu District were dispatched to encircle and suppress the sparrows, and they coaxed the sparrows to the annihilation area of Taoranting Park and the poisonous bait area of the Taoranting swimming pool, and exterminated 512 sparrows. Within 5 kilometers of Yuyuan Lake in Haidian District, more than 3,000 people attacked from both water and drought roads, driving the sparrows to the trees in the middle of the lake.

That night, a "victory parade" was held in the capital to display the results of the "battle," and a convoy of cars loaded with "exterminated" sparrows and a group of "sparrow captives" passed by on Chang'an Avenue in a mighty manner, and the people of the whole city applauded. After a day of "fighting", the results were "extremely brilliant", according to incomplete statistics, the city was exhausted, poisoned, and killed 83,249 sparrows. At the same time, Shanghai also held a war of annihilation, and a total of 194432 sparrows were wiped out in the city. (To be continued......)