Chapter 236: The Darkness Before Dawn

First Target Plane, December 28, 1943, in Shanghai, eastern part of the Yanhuang Continent. This is a metropolis that has gradually developed and prospered because of its geographical location since the Yanhuang modern era, after the country was bombarded by Western ships and artillery.

Before 1937, Shanghai had been nourished by the "golden decade" of the Yan and Huang Republic of China, and with its proximity to Nanjing, the capital of the Yan and Huang Republic of China, it belonged to the sphere of influence of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang consortium on which Chairman Chiang relied and the gathering of foreign concessions, so the development speed has been very fast, and it is often known as the "Oriental Night Paris". In later generations, there were even experts and scholars who used some "historical data" to infer that the income of a female textile worker in Shanghai could catch up with a county magistrate in other provinces, cities and counties, and belonged to an absolute high-income group, so they boasted of recognizing the Republic of China era.

But what is the actual situation? What is the "Golden Decade" like? By 1939, most of Shanghai's textile factories belonged to foreign countries, especially the Japanese Invaders. As early as 1917 to 1922, the Japanese domestic merchant groups had planned and step-by-step creation, acquisition, control, and destruction of the local national textile industry in Yanhuang, such as: the bankruptcy and closure of the Great China Textile Factory; The first and second yarn factories of Pou Cheng were annexed by the Japanese Invaders; Yuda, Huafeng, Baocheng No. 3 and Yuanxing Yarn Mills were managed by the Japanese creditors; Deda, Dafeng, Changzhou yarn mills changed hands at a loss; The Shosei Yarn Mill was sold to the Wakos; Fucheng, Dingxin and Jiu'an yarn factories were closed.

From 1930 to 1935, due to the outbreak of the economic crisis of the Western powers, the domestic purchasing power of Yan and Huang was exhausted, and the Japanese took the opportunity to dump at a low price, so that eight of the nine famous yarn factories in Jinhai City, as well as more than two-thirds of all the yarn factories in Shanghai, were taken by the Japanese by forcibly occupying and occupying them, and by the end of 1939, there were nearly 100,000 textile workers in Shanghai, of which 68,000 worked in the factories controlled by the Japanese and less than 20,000 in Chinese-funded enterprises.

So, working in a yarn mill run by the invaders, how much better can the treatment of Yanhuang textile workers be?

The yarn mills of the early Republic of China era were characterized by a larger number of workers than other factories, as well as a higher proportion of female workers and young workers. Before the start of the war in 1937, the contract foreman system was mainly used (the Chinese text "Bao Gong" is its true portrayal), but later, as the national war between the Japanese and the Yellow became bigger and bigger, the number of unemployed workers in the country became more and more, and the bankrupt peasants in the rural areas poured into the cities in large numbers, resulting in a great wealth of labor. The worst of these are petty workers and child labor. Because they didn't know much technology, they relied purely on strength to eat, or they were young, and they lost their parents and relatives, so not only did they knock out their bones and suck the marrow, but they also exploited their full value, and even Yan Huang's own people such as cousins, yarn shakers, coppersmiths, and ordinary workers also bullied them.

The so-called small workers, they are generally responsible for pushing yarn, sweeping, rubbing, reversing the bobbin, dismantling the flower bag, refueling the cloth machine, falling step, stacking the cloth car, etc. The sweeper had to sweep twenty or thirty abbots a day, that is, the floor that could hold about five hundred machines; The one who pushes the car pushes about 150 looms, and also sweeps the flower clothes under the car; The cloth machine refueling worker is the worst, every day to refuel about 250 cloth cars, each car up and down 79 oil eyes, automatic cloth car more than 120 oil eyes, in addition to many oil eyes under the machine, to sleep on the ground or like a dog lying on the ground can be refueled, not only the back will hurt to break off at the end of the day, and a little carelessness will be broken arms. And they are often so busy that they don't even have time to pee all day, this is the fucking prosperity of the Republic of China?

After the invasion of China, its textile factories set up positions such as the large class, the second shift, and the third shift, the large class is responsible for the production and operation of the whole factory, the second shift is responsible for the affairs of the business, the third shift is responsible for managing the workshop production, and the third shift also has the "Little Dongyang" (that is, the Han jiān dog leg who assists the Japanese Kou), and then there is the lower class, such as the supervisor, the hall (the workshop manager, responsible for completing the production task), the instructor (teaching the students how to work), the yarn shaker, the joint, the doffing person, etc., among which the workers also have special grade (only applicable to the foreman) , the difference between the superior level and the general level, so as to cause internal contradictions among the people of Yan and Huang and divide their national cohesion.

In the Wako Textile Factory, there were two shifts a day, which meant that the weavers had to work a full 12 hours a day. The morning shift is from 6 o'clock in the morning to 6 o'clock in the evening, in order not to be late and be deducted from the meager wages, the Yanhuang textile workers who live a little farther need to get up at four o'clock in the morning (a few female workers need to get up at three o'clock to cook), and then rush to work after eating a little food, and enter the factory at 5:30 o'clock at the latest to "take over". In addition to being fined half a wage, he was also "rewarded" with two slaps, eaten "pai tou" (reprimanded), and a "ham" (kicked hard).

As for eating at noon, the Japanese merchants did even more bad things, and other factories could rest and eat for more or less ten minutes to half an hour, while the Japanese merchants regarded the Yan and Huang people as slaves, cattle and horses, and they forced the workers to eat in the workshop, and worked while eating, so as to squeeze the labor value of the Yan and Huang people to the greatest extent.

But such strong manual labor, in exchange for an average of only 4 or 5 dimes per day, ultra-low wages, such as the advocate of the Republic of China, the Republic of China more than 1 yuan mentioned by the gang of people, only belong to the instructor, that is, the female foreman, the hall manager, that is, the workshop manager, these people have, and have nothing to do with ordinary textile workers. What's more, due to the existence of gangsters in Shanghai, low-level workers still have to accept about a quarter of their wages and income "protection fees".

Along the way, apart from the most basic food expenses, the textile workers had enough money left over to barely have a place to live in the slums of the "lime kilns". Because the "lime kiln" grass shed is crowded into a room by dozens of people, it is noisy and noisy, and it is impossible to make up for sleep during the day. This was the real life of the textile workers at that time: twenty-four hours a day, working more than twelve hours, plus commuting to and from work, cooking and washing clothes at home, sleeping for five or six hours, so that he could recover some physical strength and continue to work, busy under whipping, insults, starvation, slaughter, exploitation, exchanging his life for money, and making money with his life, so as to "create thousands of wealth for the enemy, and not be able to satisfy his own sons and daughters." "So, like that, advocating the glory of the Republic of China, the awesome bullshit bricks of the Republic of China are called beasts, open your dog's eyes and see, where is the life of the people at the bottom at that time, where is it good, where is the middle class!?

At 7 p.m. on December 28, 1943, on a remote street on the edge of downtown Shanghai, there was a silver building. The silver building is not big, the façade only occupies two house numbers, the Shanghai dialect is called "double room", not far from the French Concession, and the surrounding area belongs to the relatively low-level consumption area in Shanghai. Surrounded by low-level jì courtyards, Shanghai's high-level jì courtyards are on the side of the four roads and five roads, the highest level is called "Changsan", the second class is called "Mo Er", and here it becomes "salted meat village", which means that it is not even "fresh meat", which shows how lowly it is. The service targets are also low-level people. If according to the history of the main plane, a large number of Stars and Stripes sailors came here later, bringing the jì women here to buy jewelry and gifts, and Shanghainese called this kind of woman "saltwater girl".

Today, a middle-aged man in a suit walked into the silver building and said to the shopkeeper who was about to clean up the store and close the door: "Shopkeeper, do you have a 'double dragon and phoenix' hairpin?" ”

"'Double Dragon and Phoenix' hairpin? We don't have this guest officer. There is only a 'Double Dragon Playing Pearl' hairpin, is this okay? When the shopkeeper heard this, he was slightly stunned and replied with a smile.

"No, our lady named the 'Double Dragon and Phoenix' hairpin." The middle-aged man bluntly refused.

"This~~" The shopkeeper hesitated slightly, and then showed that he didn't want to lose his customers and let go of the business, and said: "If you don't care too much about the price, I can ask the master of the silver building to customize, okay?" ”

"Oh? OK! How much do you want? ”

"500 yuan?"

"Some are too high, how about 180 yuan?"

"400 yuan?"

"211 yuan, this is my reserve price."

"Deal, you wait a while, I'll close the door, you come with me!" The shopkeeper made a deal and was very happy.

A few minutes later, in the attic on the second floor of the silver building.

"Comrade Liu Ningyi, hello, I'm Ma Chungu sent by zhōngyāng." The noun number code is correct, and Ma Chungu, who confirmed the identity of the other party, spoke first.

"Comrade Ma Chungu, I look forward to your coming, do you have any new instructions?" Liu Ningyi, who was one of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committees of the Yanhuanghong Party, asked excitedly.

"I'm here mainly to verify some information." Ma Chungu didn't dare to delay time, and hurried up to ask, "We have received information (military satellite monitoring pictures) and found that the Japanese Navy has recently sent a large number of transport ships to Shanghai and other places, which seem to be carrying a large number of machinery and materials, and I want to ask you if there is more detailed information here." ”

"There's such a thing."

"What are they desperately trying to ship? Is it all machinery? ”

"From the guests I have always come and gone, the news I have received is that the little devils are doing their best to move the equipment of large and small factories in Shanghai and surrounding provinces and cities, as if they are being shipped to Nanyang Country (Australia), where they are ready to be reassembled for production."

"Are the little devils ready to run away?" Ma Chungu muttered to himself.

"It should be said that I am ready to retreat. Those two dogs (referring to Han jiān) are now panicked, nervous and scared. Although the Japanese pirates vigorously preach that the Yangtze River is as dangerous as gold, our Red Party troops without a navy can only look at the river and sigh. However, judging from the information gathered from the mouth of the second dog, the Japanese are hurrying to transfer all kinds of factory equipment, especially all kinds of machinery in the military factory. Comrade Ma Chungu, what should we do? Do you sit back and wait for the enemy to snatch them all? ”

"Don't worry, Comrade Liu Ningyi! Machinery alone has nothing to lose and do not have much effect on us. Besides, as long as we endure it a little longer, this Shanghai and the entire south will be completely changed. ”

"The big army is finally coming?" Hearing the meaning of Ma Chungu's words, Liu Ning's eyes couldn't help but light up with excitement, he didn't know how long he had been waiting for this day.

"Well, it should be soon, you still need to do the last patience for the time being!" Ma Chungu saw Liu Ningyi's excitement, and comforted and encouraged: "Now is the last darkness before dawn, and the light will come soon." In addition, through secret words, we contacted all our comrades in Shanghai and asked them to prepare and respond to prevent accidental injuries during the cross-river campaign. ”

"Yes, I understand!"

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