In later generations, Beijing, the capital of the Yanhuang Republic, was the political and cultural center of the Yanhuang Republic, a world-famous ancient capital and a modern international city. Together with Xi'an, Luoyang and Nanjing, it is known as the "Four Ancient Capitals" of Yanhuang Kingdom, has 6 world heritage sites, and has important international influence. But in 1943, in the target plane, Wang Fan, dressed in a coarse cloth coat, stood on the side of the road, looking at the city gate that only existed in books, and couldn't help but be a little confused, what should I call this city now? Beijing, or Beiping?

After the Northern Expedition of the Yanhuang Revolutionary Army conquered Kyoto in the 17th year of the Yanhuang Republic of China (1928), the 145th meeting of the Central Political Conference of the Bald Party Central Committee on June 21, 1928 decided that "Kyoto" would be renamed "Beiping" on June 28, and set up Beiping Special City, and the Hebei Provincial Government was stationed here from October of the 17th year of the Yanhuang Republic of China (1928). In June of the 19th year of the Yan and Huang Republic of China (1930), according to the newly promulgated Municipal Organization Law, the provincial capital must be a provincial municipality. As a result, the city was downgraded to a provincial municipality under the jurisdiction of Hebei Province and was directly subordinate to the Hebei Provincial Government. In October of the same year, the Hebei Provincial Government moved to Tianjin. In November, it was re-promoted to the municipality under the jurisdiction of the Yuan, called the Beiping Municipal Government, and directly subordinate to the Executive Yuan. It was not until July of the 26th year of the Yan and Huang Republic of China (1937) that the Japanese army occupied Beiping, and then changed its name to "Beijing".

"Forget it, let's call it Beiping, or it seems that I follow the meaning of the Japanese Kou." Wang Fan exhaled and muttered to himself.

"What do you want to do here?" Yadi's azure voice sounded in Wang Fan's mind.

"I'm very curious, what is Beiping like in 43 years, old Beiping, courtyards, Dashilar, Liulichang, old Peking opera, street stall cross talk, orthodox temple fairs, etc., these are very chewy terms that have been interpreted by artists in later generations, which makes me have an indescribable closeness and curiosity about this city!"

However, the scenes that appeared in Wang Fan's eyes one after another made him completely lose the mood to explore the strange. According to the general truth, in the occupied area occupied by the Japanese invaders, Beiping, as an important city, relatively speaking, the standard of living should still be relatively good, and the living materials are still relatively large, but even so, the life of ordinary people in Beiping is still struggling with food, clothing and hunger.

On February 21, 1940, it was recorded: Recently after the lunar year, prices have skyrocketed, sugar has so far been one yuan and eight cents a catty, more expensive than meat, meat has no market, money can not buy meat, tofu four cents, yesterday bought three beans to pay, two handfuls of spinach cost two cents, rice one hundred and twenty-eight yuan a stone, the second rice three cents seven hundred and eighty-one pounds, noodle one yuan eighty-one pounds, the rest are all strange, that is, I don't know how to live in the future! Words are full of sighs, and when they meet, everyone is secretly worried about the problem of living. In the afternoon, Xiao Liu came to sit down and go, and bought one hundred and twenty-three catties of rice in the afternoon, at a cost of forty-four yuan and seven cents, which was three cents and six cents a catty, and in the past it was only one cent, and three yuan and a bag of white noodles rose to seven times today, and Wen Kunming sold a bag of noodles for forty yuan, which is really an unprecedented phenomenon. Come back and tell the Huang family to buy rice, tomorrow they will also go to buy rice, and Bin will go out!

In 1940, when the Japanese had a strategic advantage in the war, the ordinary people of Beiping lived like this, and on May 15, 1941, the "Peking Diary" wrote: When I came home and talked about housework with my mother, I didn't feel that I was so worried when I thought about it, I was originally sixty or seventy yuan a month, and the living standard was so high at this time, it was only enough to suffer, and the odd and broken items, all the rice and flour rent, etc., were not settled, and the food, clothing and housing were three major items, all of which had no way, and there was no additional input. The monthly is not enough, the spirit is really troubled, and the family has no permanent production, what is the magic method at this time?! The best way is to make two windfalls, buy horse tickets, buy lottery tickets are not sure, try luck! Unless I go to work now, but I am only one year away from graduating, in this harsh environment, my grades are greatly affected, it is really difficult to be good, hate me for being unlucky, and meet this difficult situation! Hate me for being young and carrying this burden!

In 1943, when Yanhuang was in a state of strategic stalemate, the offensive momentum of the Japanese army had been frustrated, and the Pacific theater was also defeated and retreated, resulting in a shortage of materials in both the country and the occupied areas. Not to mention food and medicine, even small matches are almost unavailable, because most of the phosphorus on the heads of matches is used to support the "holy war".

So, what about those who served in the puppet army and sold their souls for their livelihood, in the "North China Xinbao" under the jurisdiction of the Japanese invaders, there were long articles such as "The Life of a Small Civil Servant" and "Please Think About Public Servants": For a middle-class clerk, in another year, that is, in the first half of 1944, he could get 240 yuan a month plus a subsidy. However, the average rent at that time was 30 to 40 yuan, a foot of cloth cost more than 10 yuan, and a bag of noodles cost more than 200 yuan. Not to mention supporting a family, even one's own minimum survival has become a problem. Comparing the statistics of 1939, the wages of the clerks have risen nearly twice in nominal terms, but at the same time, the price of grain has risen by more than 30 times, the price of cloth has increased by more than 100 times, and the rent has risen by about 5 times. In 1944, when a section chief wanted to convene a meeting of his staff members, he often had to go to the corner of the road to look for them, because their section members all went to the street to pull foreign cars to subsidize their families. However, the Japanese will naturally not share weal and woe with the "untouchables", they treat themselves leniently and preferentially, take advantage of the essence and use the macro, and treat the good with pampering. Not to mention people, even military horses are fed with grain. The crops that those military horses eat beans can't digest, and there are undigested beans in the dung, and the hungry people in the neighborhood pick them out to satisfy their hunger (this is the so-called Dadong ya Gongrong Circle created by the Japanese Invaders!!). ）。

As for what the common people eat? Of course, it's the "republican side", and the so-called republican side is a mixture of thirty or forty kinds of waste that cats don't smell and dogs don't lick. According to the memories of the surviving elders, the composition of this mixture was not fixed during the reign of the Wakos. When the year is good, most of it is Chen Kang's rotten grain and some chaff wheat straw and other things. If the year is bad, all of the above are luxuries, mixed with gravel, sand, insects and even cinders. Fu Liucheng, an old man who had been an apprentice in the Crane Year Hall, recalled: "The common people began to be unable to bear the "republican side", so they carried their pockets everywhere to find a place to sell grain, but the grain store just didn't sell it, because the Japanese had already issued a death order to seal the grain. There was no way, and later the people even rushed to buy things like dried sweet potatoes and bean cakes used to feed the pigs. Later, it was not easy to even get the republican noodles, and once I bought it, I had to swallow it forcibly. "The taste of the noodles is conceivable, and what is more terrible is that this kind of thing is not nutritious, and it is easy to cause diarrhea or constipation, which is tantamount to a lifeline for the elderly and children with weak resistance. In the later stages of the war, the Japanese people had stricter control over grain, and they closed shops and robbed shops at every turn. Even the republican noodles have become a "fragrant paradox", so there are some hawkers in the city, who get up early in the morning, quietly walk the streets and alleys, buy some republican noodles, and then drive them out of the city and sell them to the poor people in Guanxiang to make a little profit. At that time, the common people of Beiping, even if they wanted to eat some republican noodles that pigs and dogs refused to eat, they had to be so secretive. The hardships and hardships can be imagined. After the liberation, in Mr. Lao She's famous article "Four Worlds in the Same Hall": Niu Niu, the youngest life of the Qi family, was finally because she ate too much impurities, and the sand and chaff in it were stuck in the appendix, causing acute appendicitis. She had a cramping pain in her stomach, her whole body was shrunk into a ball, she was covered in cold sweat, her old pants and gown were soaked, and she passed away after suffering all the suffering in the world.

This is what appeared in Wang Fan's eyes, the capital city that was once the foot of the Son of Heaven, and now it has become a completely depressed slum The capital of Beiping.

"Yadi, is this really Beiping?"

"Geographically, it's no problem!"

"Then why is it so broken?"

"Compared with 70 years later, it naturally looks shabby. If you look back 100 years, perhaps the black coal kilns and other factories that you later generations on the earth thought were messy and messy, but they were advanced industrial areas in the former Qing Dynasty, representing prosperity and national strength. ”

Looking at the dense beggars on the edge of the city and the dirty streets in the city, although he knew that the place where the Japanese army and the leader lived must have a good environment, Wang Fan could no longer mention his interest in exploring the ancient world.

"We always say that there are friends from afar, and we always give the best treatment to outsiders, but what do we get in exchange? War, humiliation, killing, ridicule! Always be lenient to outsiders and strict to the insiders! Wang Fan said with self-questioning.

"What do you mean?"

"It's nothing, it's just that I suddenly figured it out, I thought about it, I've always participated in the development process of this world as an outsider, always with a sense of superiority! I always feel that I just need to arm the army of the Yanhuang Red Party, defeat the Japanese Invaders, and restore the occupied areas, and I can watch the whole process without participating, and I always feel that the people of Yanhuang need a war of iron and blood to awaken their own blood and backbone. The sacrifices necessary for this are tolerable. Now seeing these real roads with frozen bones makes me understand, I need to do something by myself, and I have this ability, isn't it, Chen Li is on the list, and if you can't, you can't stop! Yade, help me find out how much food and aerial bombs are in the ring! ”

The next day in Beiping, the sun rose like that, and the poor people near and far in Beiping got up as usual, preparing to continue to work for their livelihood, but what surprised them was that whether they lived in shacks or were homeless, there were more or less steamed buns, nest heads, mustard vegetables, rice, and white flour around everyone. Even some pregnant women, injured workers, and hungry children who have just given birth have appeared in the places where ham, chicken, duck eggs and other delicious meals have long been hard to find. Everyone didn't get much, and they were only enough to eat one or two meals (there were 160~1.7 million people in Beiping at that time, and Wang Fan didn't have too many materials left, and he gave too much, and he would be snatched away by the Japanese in the end).

The vision of a family having enough to eat in the morning in Peiping should have aroused the great concern of the Japanese invaders, but when they had just received some reports intermittently, a sudden high-altitude bombardment swept through the Beiping area, and all the areas where the Japanese or the army or the government were concentrated were bombed by a large number of aerial bombs, and the entire Beiping garrison suffered heavy losses, so all attention was put on defensive bombing. The strange food incident was also spared, although it was widely circulated among the people, but when there were only one or two meals of food, those evidences had already been wiped out by one mouth, so the vast majority of the Japanese believed that it was just a rumor. Of course, there is another thing that they overlooked, and that is that many of the buildings in the Forbidden City were destroyed in the bombing, leaving only charred wood, and no one particularly noticed, and many of the buildings had a thin layer of base on the ground floor that also disappeared with the entire building.

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