Chapter 235: World War II Breaks Out

1939, August, Berlin, Germany.

The Chinese Embassy on Kufsdan Boulevard is one of the most well-known old streets in Berlin, with an elegant and quiet environment and public facilities. In addition to the door number of the Chinese Embassy in Germany, the Chinese embassy in Germany is also hung with the symbol of the key security unit of the Nazi Party.

For the Chinese embassy, the Gestapo, who were cruel to Jews, foreigners, and even Germans, avoided it, and it was the will from the top that kept them away from the Chinese.

Even though these Chinese had some doubts in the information obtained by the Gestapo, Hitler knew about this suspicion and severely reprimanded him as "foolishly treating the normal intelligence gathering work of an extremely friendly country as espionage." Since then, Germany's intelligence services, while occasionally paying attention to the Chinese embassy in the same way that they monitor embassies of other countries, have kept the Chinese intelligence dangerous, at least to a minimum.

As soon as he got up in the morning, He Fengshan dressed up carefully, and even tied the bow tie rarely. As soon as I went downstairs, I met a staff member of the embassy.

"Mr. He, you are really getting more and more energetic, I told Mrs. He yesterday that you must look good in a bow tie." It was a female worker at the embassy who spoke, whose working surname was somewhat similar to that of a servant in the embassies of other countries, but with a much higher status. She takes care of the staff of the embassy in Germany, but also takes on logistical duties.

"Thank you, sister-in-law." He Fengshan smiled gentlemanly, his living habit was earlier than others, and as the secretary of the embassy, He Fengshan's wife was a little later, "Sister-in-law Wang, let's open the embassy half an hour earlier today." ”

"Yes, Mr. Ho." Sister-in-law Wang simply cleaned up the dining room and went to order the kitchen to start eating in advance.

He Fengshan let out a long sigh, walked to the window on the second floor, looked at the street in the distance, and saw a bleak wind, occasionally there were always one or two German youths, chasing another person or several people on the empty street in the early morning, once they were caught up, it was often a violent beating.

......When the sharp whistle sounded, He Fengshan shook his head slightly, but what he saw was that several German Gestapo rushed to the scene on their trailer motorcycles with their surnames, dragging away several Jews who were knocked to the ground and could not move.

"Fengshan."

A soft voice sounded, and then a graceful beautiful woman walked to He Fengshan's side, took his hand, and watched the tragedy in the distance of the wall.

"Fengshan, there is nothing we can do about all this. All the nations are rejecting the Jews. It's not your fault, you're a diplomat, but only if you're a member of the Ba'ath Party. He Fengshan's wife comforted.

He Fengshan shook his head and said, "Madam, as a diplomat, I know my mission and will not do anything that violates the order. But there's good news, which I'll announce in a moment after dinner. ”

When the embassy personnel had a collective meal in the small dining room on the second floor, He Fengshan finally officially announced something, "Comrades, this is the latest domestic instruction that our embassy has just received, let's take a look." ”

The document was quickly passed in everyone's hands, and most of them were happy when they saw it, and He Fengshan's wife even folded her hands in prayer.

"Ambassador, according to this plan, we just need to wait for the mission to arrive and start working immediately? How to deal with security problems? The military attache of the embassy, Major Cheng Zifeng of the People's Army, asked.

"The mission will take care of everything, and all we need to do is work with them. I would like to say that this plan for the Jews was extremely important, and it was bought at a great cost to the Republican Axe, and the negotiations alone took place seven times. While most of the work will be handled by the new Task Force on Jewish Affairs, we still need to maintain a high level of accountability. ”

He Fengshan emphatically reminded that although he and the counselor were the only two people from the embassy who participated in the secret meeting of the Sino-German negotiations on the Jews, he still deeply experienced the hardships of the negotiation process.

It was not until mid-1939 that the negotiations on the Jews reached a critical breakthrough period, when the Germans, forced by certain circumstances, finally made a concession and promised the Chinese government to carry out the first phase of the plan for the Jews, which had been submitted to Hitler for personal review.

"Once the program officially began, we were going to be very busy, and as you can see, the first batch of the program was in the number of 10,000 people, which was very different from the number of Jews in Germany as a whole, but it required us to cooperate with the task force to carefully screen them and classify them."

From the bottom of his heart, He Fengshan is sincerely happy that this final cooperation plan can be reached between China and Germany, and aside from his status as the ambassador of the Republic to Germany, he personally hopes that China's political axe can stand up and do something as a big country.

It's not about the right or wrong of the Jews, it's just about the lives of the Jews, whether they are so easily tortured and killed because they are innocent.

Berlin's West End, a Jewish ghetto.

Since the beginning of 1939, the Jews have become more and more miserable. More and more Jews were arrested by the Gestapo and even the Wehrmacht on charges of disturbing the country's order, threatening national stability, or other crimes. After their arrest, the families of these Jews had no chance to see their relatives at all, and there was no trial, let alone a courtroom, and even brandishing the invincible Deutsche Mark in front of the officials of the vital departments did not work.

The shrewd, treacherous, cunning, hard-working, calculating Jews were helpless this time.

The long-term vulnerability of existence has become extremely sensitive to the change in the situation of survival, telling them that a storm against the Jews is coming, which has been prepared for a long time.

Outside the Jewish ghetto, the Gestapo were everywhere in plainclothes, and the Wehrmacht, often with a cart parked in the shadows, hid in the shadows, like a tiger preying on the forest, seemingly ready to come out and take a Jew or two away.

The Jews in the streets were already in a hurry, and every man had a sad look on his face, not the shrewdness or deceit he had been.

"Malazhov."

Around the corner of the street, a Jew suddenly stopped another Jew who was walking on the opposite side with his head bowed, unexpectedly meeting his former classmate on this damn morning.

"Unam." Malazhov, dressed as a worker, hung his head down, and when he saw that the opposite was actually his old college classmate, he couldn't help but show a rare smile.

"Long time no see, let's go, go to my house and sit down."

Unam and Malazhov soon arrived home, a small building, although the Jews were generally wealthy, but with such a house, it seemed to be a house that only wealthy Jews could afford to live in.

"Malazhov, didn't you work at the Vagra Heavy Machinery Plant? How can you wander the streets. Unam was aware of something, but still asked by chance.

"Unam, at this time, you should also be in your watch shop, counting the customers who come in, and with a sharp eye, judge whether they will buy your handmade watch with a profit of 300%." Malazhov smiled bitterly, took a cup of coffee from Unam's wife, and drank it subconsciously.

"The situation is getting worse."

Unam also threw his head up and gulped down his cup of coffee to hide his worries. "Three hours ago, my watch shop was seized by the Germans on the grounds that it was a threat to the security of the German economy, what a ridiculous reason, was it because of that damn 300% profit? God knows, the core part of my watches is made to order in China, and the latest model, although not a handmade watch, is definitely better than a Swiss handmade watch. It must have been the German guy across the street, who had been jealous of my shop for stealing his business. ”

"As a worker under a German factory owner, I drank a few sips of water during working hours without being asked, and that's why they fired me. God knows how much I contributed to this machine factory, and even their production line was modified by me on my idea. Malazhov shook his head in the same way and said with a wry smile, "Unam, I am as unemployed as you, the difference is that you are still a 'rich Jew' in the German opinion, and I, I am going to start running for the children's bread." ”

"Didn't you think about leaving? Although I have a little money, I am not as good as you, you can be skilled, as long as you leave Germany, go to Palestine, go to America, go anywhere, you will be welcomed. Unam asked.

Malazhov: "Not now, in the early years, the Chinese were recruiting workers and scholars everywhere, and at that time, I thought that my life was stable and I had to take care of my family, so I refused their invitation. But now, too, they have temporarily closed the application channel. ”

Speaking of the early years, Malakov can't help but regret a little, at that time, as an excellent mechanical engineer at the Vagra Heavy Machinery Factory, he was invited by a 'Chinese headhunter', a good job, a good salary, to go to China.

"yes, China should be a good place, I heard that Einstein and Oppenheimer are in China." Unam waved his hand and said helplessly.

"Albert Einstein? Oppenheimer? Malazhov shook his head, he knew these two people, but compared to them, he was nothing, "Unam, compared to these two, we are not even as good as bed bugs." Now it seems that even they are willing to go to China, at least better than Germany in damn it. ”

“#¥%……”

"What's the sound outside?"

While the two were talking, there was a loud noise outside, as if a Jew was shouting something, and at this critical time, any noise would touch the nerves of these Jews, because it would not represent good news, but it would certainly be bad news.

When Unam and the two reached the balcony, they saw a young Jewish man riding a bicycle, shouting loudly.

"The Chinese embassy accepts pre-registration. The Chinese embassy accepts visa pre-registration. ”

Rumble!!

The news was like a bombshell falling into the ghetto, and the panicked German Jews finally grasped a straw like a dog in the water. Everyone rushed home, rummaged through boxes and cabinets to find their identification, and then rushed out the door.

No one even doubted the accuracy of the message, and there had been a few cases of such a case before, where occasionally a few Jews who had gone early had obtained visas at the embassy of a certain country, but those who had gone late had no chance.

"Malazhov, go, take my car, I'll send you home to get the certificate, and we'll go together." Although he was a shrewd Jewish businessman, Unam still valued friendship, and without saying a word, he took the identity certificate of a family of four handed over by his wife, and went out with Malazhov.

However, when they came to the door of the Chinese Embassy, they found that the situation was a little beyond their imagination, and the entire street where the Chinese Embassy was located was already lined up with a queue of people more than two kilometers long.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!!"

At this time, more than 20 Wehrmacht military trucks drove up the street, and hundreds of heavily armed Nazi Wehrmacht officers and soldiers jumped down from them, and without saying a word, raised their rifles and threw them at the Jews who were crowding into the street.

"Get out of the way." When the Wehrmacht finally cleared the streets, a car of a senior Wehrmacht officer drove up to the entrance of the Chinese Embassy, led by two German-made cars.

"Hi Hitler!" Wehrmacht Major Amo stepped out of the car and saluted He Fengshan, who was standing in front of the embassy, ready to speak on a megaphone. "Dear Mr. He Fengshan, I am Major Amo, and I have been ordered to come to maintain order."

"Hello Major Amo, thank you very much for coming, it has helped us a lot." He Fengshan shook hands with the other party, although from a personal point of view, he did not agree too much with some of the extreme practices of the Nazis, but as a high-ranking diplomat of the republic, he was also cold-blooded and calm.

Walking in front of the megaphone, He Fengshan said to the thousands of Jews who had swarmed in, "After arduous negotiations with the German political axe, the Chinese people were able to carry out a large-scale long-term talent introduction program in Germany. ”

Hearing He Fengshan say these words fluently in German, the Jews' originally excited hearts couldn't help but be cold, yes, how could the Chinese issue visas to too many Jews. You must know that even the allies of the German political axe, who said that they wanted to recruit 'talents' from Germany, were angrily rejected by Hitler with excuses.

"However, there is no need to worry, the number of talent introduction places this time will be larger than in the past, which fully reflects the effective negotiation results of the political axe between China and Germany. According to the plan, we will hold this talent selection meeting at Simos Stadium early tomorrow morning, and we welcome the majority of aspiring Jews to participate. ”

"Great!!"

"There's hope now!"

"Another chance to leave Germany."

All the Jews present began to get excited, looking at the appearance of the Chinese, ready to accept many Jews, of course, as to what kind of talent selection meeting, or what, what does it matter.

"Malazhov, this is your chance." Unam waved his hand and said helplessly, Malazhov is an excellent engineer at the heavy machinery plant, he definitely has a chance to be selected, and his own chances are much smaller, do the Chinese need Jews to earn their money?

Apparently, he was not convinced. For the Germans expelled the Jews on the grounds that 'the Jews had earned the wealth of Germany'.

"Unam, you have to try before you can draw conclusions. The creed of our Jews, however, is not to be given up easily in addition to knowledge and wealth. Malazhov comforted. The two of them immediately made plans to try their luck together the next day, and in order to give Unam a better chance of passing, Malazhov even suggested that he try it as a watch expert.

The news that the Chinese would hold an open job fair at the Simos Stadium quickly became a bombshell news throughout Berlin and even among the entire German Jews.

According to various gossip, and even more and more, the Jews realized that perhaps this was the last chance to leave Germany, otherwise all kinds of bad luck awaited them, whether they were arrested for no reason, or they could be wantonly tortured and killed, which happened to others or to themselves immediately.

Many Jews were coming to Berlin from all over Germany, and now only one Chinese embassy openly offered to recruit skilled Jews. And there was also the protection of the Wehrmacht on the spot, and it seems that they really reached some kind of agreement with the German political axe.

The next day, when 20,000 Jews in Berlin went to the Simos Stadium, they found that it was already crowded with people, and there were more than 20 long queues in the stadium from the outside to the inside.

Unam and Malazhov had come to the stadium at two o'clock in the middle of the night to line up, and at that time, thousands of Jews were already waiting in the huge field outside the stadium, and they were very far behind. (Not every Jew goes to the line, every house goes to a principal or something.) At nine o'clock in the morning, under the protection of the Wehrmacht, the Chinese working group officially entered the stadium, and the entire stadium, the back half of which was the workplace of Chinese, while the front part, and even the huge field outside the stadium, were crowded with Jews, waiting in line for news.

"Queue up to receive the number, we will announce in advance every day the number of the personnel who will be audited, please pay attention not to miss the time, otherwise you can only enter the final queue number."

A staff member of the Chinese Embassy stood on the podium on the side of the stadium and announced it through an electric loudspeaker over the microphone.

It turns out that today is the beginning of the release.

"Everyone gives their names and occupations in turn. You must report your true information, otherwise, if there is a discrepancy in the audit, you will be recorded in the blacklist forever. In particular, businessmen and those who do not have outstanding abilities must be faithfully registered, otherwise, you will not be able to pass the subsequent strict examination. ”

What made Jews nervous was that the Chinese had sternly warned that if there was any cheating registration, they would be forever rejected by the Chinese embassy. And when I heard that there was an audit behind me, I couldn't help but be more nervous.

But in the whispered conversation of most people, they also figured out that after all, the Chinese have to accept a large number of people, and if they come in a hurry, it will naturally not work.

"Hopefully I'll pass the review."

This is what most Jews think.

However, to the great delight of the Jews, the Chinese did appear to be prepared to accept many Jews, and the working group alone prepared fifty reception clerks, and in front of more than twenty long Jewish queues, a working group of one Chinese and one German was set up for the record.

"Malakov, mechanical engineer."

"Unam, watch expert and businessman."

"Flory Hein, University Professor."

"Spraeva, weaver."

"Vascole, I've done a dozen jobs, well, the best is the fitter."

"Kabruisla, dentist."

...... "No. A107"

"No. B269"

"No. C698"

"No. D433"

…… The whole scene was extremely hot, with tens of thousands of Jews waiting in long lines to be recorded, and each one was given a number, which was divided into four categories of ABCD.

Category A numbers represent Category A talents, who include scientists, engineers, skilled workers, academics, teachers, doctors, and more.

Category B numbers represent merchants, whether petty traders, factory owners, or freelance traders, who fall into this category.

Category C numbers represent ordinary workers or skilled workers who may not be skilled workers, but are competent to perform the strict production of the factory.

Category D represents those who are unemployed, or housewives, or other vagrants.

According to the announcement of the Chinese Embassy, every Jewish family can be issued a unified number. That is to say, as long as there is one person in your family who has passed the examination, whether you rely on 'supporting Chinese people's economic construction' or 'supporting China's industrial construction' or 'supporting China's technological construction and cultural construction', as long as you are approved, your family can get a visa.

Looking at the hot registration scene, He Fengshan and the head of the working group, Chang Mingshan, deputy director of the Department of European Affairs from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were talking with emotion.

"There are too many people, will it cause any adverse effects, and the reputation of the Jews is still too bad." He Fengshan shook his head, although he really wanted to rescue the Jews and give them visas. But they were told to leave Germany and go to Palestine. And now, the political axe is ready to accept a considerable number of them.

"Fengshan, you're too worried." Chang Mingshan patted him on the shoulder, raised the plan in his hand, and said, "The plan of the Jewish Affairs Group has been done in great detail, and it has been approved by Chairman Zhang Shusheng. You see, in the four categories, after we have undergone strict review, the first batch will only accept Category A talents in technology, science, culture, education, medicine, etc.

These best Jews will be granted visas free of charge in the program, and their number is expected to be no more than 30,000. Including family members, it will not exceed 100,000 people. For this group of people, we will accept them generously and issue visas to their dependents in advance, however, they must also sign a long-term work contract with us, otherwise they will be punished by our law. You see, the minimum working experience requirement has also reached 15 years.

For Class B merchants, we certainly don't take it badly. For the audit, they are required to contribute a large amount of 'International Friendship Fund', which is, of course, completely voluntary. After they pay this fund, we can issue them visas to China, but in reality, they can only go to Palestine, or elsewhere in the Middle East, or even the Americas.

In the case of categories C and D, the team will slow down the process of vetting, and the vast majority of them, even ordinary workers, will have difficulty obtaining visas until a powerful Jewish organization is found to pay for them. Of course, extremely skilled workers will have a better chance. Your rank is high enough, and I can tell you that when the situation in northern Burma is completely stabilized, we can issue visas to more Jews as long as the Jews are willing to give enough wealth. ”

"I see. That's great. As a diplomat, he knew very well that once hundreds of thousands of Jews poured into China, the Chinese would accept the mess laid down by the Germans as the main injustice.

And now, the words of the director of the permanent department have completely shown that China's political axe is definitely not a fool, on the contrary, the plan is very sufficient, prepared and planned in advance, and the critical moment is not chaotic.

You know, Class A talents are the real talents among the Jews, and with their joining, coupled with the whole family following, their long-term work in China will explode with great energy. Of course, they can also be passive and slack, but if they are expelled and cannot leave China, they will be reduced to coolies, and they will not even be able to find a new job due to the 'Jewish Act', not to mention the relevant legal sanctions.

In this way, they will only work hard, both to pay for their visas and to feed their families.

Category B businessmen are also good, as long as you are willing to donate enough money, the Chinese political axe can sell you the visa. Of course, you can condemn this as shameless, or you can say that it is obscene, but you can not buy it.

You can not buy, no one forces you to buy, the Chinese don't even expect you to buy, there will always be someone who will buy. Maybe you can refuse to buy it at first, but when war comes, the price of the 'International Friendship Fund' to support the economic construction of the Chinese people will increase.

Category C and D, after picking the most skilled workers and picking the leftovers, these ordinary workers, vagrants, bachelors, bankrupts, if they can't find a huge Jewish consortium to pay for them, their fate can only be waiting, waiting endlessly.

However, before leaving, the chairman joked that the four categories of knowledge, wisdom, cunning, and wealth of the Jews should never be underestimated. He tells us that if the Jews love money and die, we don't have to have mercy on them. Chang Mingshan reminded, and at the same time handed He Fengshan a price list of the initial 'International Friendship Fund' and motioned him to look at it.

"Yes, the wealth of the Jews is terrifying, especially the many invisible Jewish conglomerates, the rich Jewish businessmen, who can come up with amazing wealth at every turn, and if they are stingy with money, we don't have to think much about them."

He Fengshan looked at the price list in his hand and felt very happy. Although the 'International Friendship Fund' is available to all Jews, including those of the B category and those of the C and D categories, even if there is no Jewish organization to pay for them, they can buy it separately as long as they can come up with enough money. However, depending on the date of the visa, the most expensive is naturally the 'International Friendship Fund' that the B category businessmen have to pay, and the price of the visa at the highest priority time reaches 100,000 marks. Although the expected price of C and D categories is lower, only a few thousand marks, and the lowest is only 500 marks, the lower the price, the longer the waiting time for a visa can be waited until 1941...... It has to be mentioned that this plan, which is marked as 'confidential', clearly mentions that in addition to Category A talents, they need to pay an additional fee to get a certificate of residence in China, rather than going to Palestine or other places. The price is very high. ”

Chang Mingshan: "To put it simply, we welcome two types of people, talented and wealthy. China is not a philanthropic country, and there is no need to flatter Jews. In addition to Category A talents, for the rest, we only need their money. ”

"It's really exciting."

He Fengshan said with emotion, not to mention Class A, these talents will definitely have a huge effect when they go to China, after all, this is tantamount to civilization looting and directly robbing other people's senior talents. As for the rest of the people, of course, they are taking money in exchange, and whether these Jews go to Palestine, to the United States, to other places, or to northern Burma, it will have little impact on China.

In this way, the whole project would not only attract a large number of Jewish talents, but also make huge profits. That's why China's political axe is willing to pay the price for this big project.

What Chang Mingshan did not tell He Fengshan was that in categories C and D, which would account for 80 percent of the population of German Jews, there would be separate negotiations on the question of the departure of these two groups of people from Germany, otherwise China would not issue visas on a large scale.

And the German political axe only allows Chinese visas.

In this way, even if many Jewish bigwigs or wealthy powers can turn a blind eye to ordinary Jews at first, once the situation deteriorates and Hitler begins to deal with the Jews in a step-by-step manner, they will also negotiate with the Chinese political axe. After paying a huge fee, China will open official visas for people in categories C and D.

"The next few years are going to be busy, and hopefully we will live up to the expectations of the Commissioner." Chang Mingshan sighed, this is a big event, and it must be done well. With such a large number of Jews, it is not a day or two that they will make up their minds, those who are in the A category are okay and can leave when the situation is not good, but the other 80% or even more Jews may hesitate, after all, they have not been forced into a desperate situation, these Jews and the huge wealth power behind them will not let go, and there may be a small number of Jews who are not necessarily willing to exchange wealth for life when they die.

But war was inevitable, and the situation of the Jews was even more severe.

"Mr. Einstein, Mr. Oppenheimer, we are old friends, so rest assured that within China's capabilities, we will not turn a blind eye to the survival of the Jews. But you should also be able to understand the difficulties of China's political axe, so some flexible measures have been taken. ”

At the beginning of September, after attending the National Conference of Educators, Zhang Shusheng met with Albert Einstein and Oppenheimer, who had applied for a special flight to Hanjing, and who were Jewish representatives of the entire scientific and technological community in China.

In September in Europe, the war clouds became thicker, everyone sensed the imminent war, and Hitler's Nazi political axe issued a new 'Jewish policy', and the oppression of the Jews was further intensified, and in a month, more than 2,000 Jews were arrested for various reasons, and many were secretly executed.

Einstein and Oppenheimer, as Jewish representatives in the scientific and technological circles, went to Hanjing to ask Zhang Shusheng to lend a helping hand to the Jews.

But with the wisdom of the two, how can they not know how Hitler, who regarded the Jews as enemies of life and death and used the Jews as a political weapon, was willing to let them go easily? Although according to the news, the Chinese political axe has already launched a visa application operation in Germany, but the two of them know that the Chinese political axe must pay the price, and the Jews cannot get a visa to leave for no reason.

They came to Hanjing, not so much to ask Zhang Shusheng to rescue the Jews, but to see Zhang Shusheng's true attitude.

"I have only one word to tell you that they are the only ones who can save the Jews. You may also convey this to them. ”

Zhang Shusheng was referring to an organization called the World Jewish Congress, and Einstein and his wife came to Hanjing with a secret letter from this organization.

In normal times, the security personnel of the Secret Service do not prohibit Einstein and others from communicating with the outside world, but the premise is that they are strictly examined to ensure that there is no leakage of secrets. Of course, Einstein and others for various reasons, either because of their Chinese family, or because of unlimited research**, exploring science and technology**, made them consciously and resolutely not mention everything they did in China. Otherwise, they will face punishment for any attempted leaks, and even lose access to cutting-edge technology.

This is what they resolutely refuse, and this is also the reason why Einstein and others married Chinese wives, which can be regarded as a statement.

This time, it was the Jewish organization that wrote to them, hoping that they would use their influence in China to get the Chinese political axe to step up rescue efforts, or at least find out the bottom line of the Chinese political axe.

In the world, only the Chinese and Germany have successfully negotiated and can solve the Jewish question.

"Zhang, you will always be worthy of my trust, just as we communicate on technology." Einstein said frankly that he knew very well that, judging from the news, China should have taken a fancy to some of the wealth of Judaism.

But this is not a robbery, but voluntary. Einstein and others were also relatively silent about the Jews' excessive pursuit of wealth, and if there was an opportunity for Jews to exchange wealth for their lives, he believed that this would be an opportunity given by China to the Jews, not a robbery.

After all, the Chinese political axe must have paid the price of secrecy, otherwise, with the madman of Hitler, Einstein knew just thinking about it that he would not have agreed to let the Chinese political axe provide visas for the Jews.

After sending off Einstein and the others, Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but lie on the office chair and ponder.

With the outbreak of World War II imminent, various circumstances have shown that Hitler will not delay the start of war too much, and judging from intelligence, they are about to launch a blitzkrieg against Poland. The Third Reich general, Manstein, couldn't wait to test the power of the blitzkrieg.

China, on the other hand, seems to have adopted the same policy of neutrality as the Americans, but in the eyes of Westerners, they are close to the Germans and opposed to the Soviets. However, they still appreciate the Chinese's absolutely neutral trade attitude.

In Asia, China was secretly competing with Britain and was a potential behind-the-scenes actor in the Anglo-Burmese War, which the British also realized, but because of the relationship between the two countries, the British never broke through the last layer of paper, let alone played with fire on the Sino-Indian border.

Over the years, China has completely transformed itself from a poor and sick country into a great power in the Far East, and its economic strength and war potential far surpass those of Western countries.

"China still needs more time, if it is only to win World War II, it can order the army to attack the Soviet Union next year, or enter Southeast Asia, but that is not in China's best interests."

Zhang Shusheng thought to himself, and asked him to go ahead and play with the Soviets first, and with Britain and France first, just to gain more time.

As for the Far East and Southeast Asia, can China give up? Can China cede them to Yue himself?

Obviously impossible, before the start of World War II, I couldn't wait to jump up and down with the Germans, and was destined to suffer a big loss that will never be forgotten.

What China needs to do is, like the Americans, to make money first, and grab enough market share from the Americans, so that the money that should be made by the Americans will be made by China. And, through some means, the wealth brought by the war has become even greater than in the original history.

In other words, the imminent outbreak of World War II will be more protracted, more tragic, and more full of variables.

This is also the reason why Zhang Shusheng resolutely ordered the 1938 military parade to be carried out, so as to give more encouragement and hope to the Chinese who are about to usher in a world war, so that they will not live in fear of war, but in such a mentality: war is coming, where is our army!! The war is coming, where is our Baath Party!! They will protect us!!

A week later, on September 8, 1939, at 10 a.m.

Because of working all night, dealing with a question about a horizontal gyroscope used on a research rocket, Zhang Shusheng worked late, and the next day, with his physique, he could get up early.

But for some reason, Zhang Shusheng had a premonition, hugged He Ning to the death, fought again and again, and finally neither of them got up, and for the first time since the founding of the People's Republic of China five years ago, he slept until 10 o'clock.

"Jingle Bell ......"

When the phone in the bedroom rang suddenly, Zhang Shusheng opened his eyes, he realized that something might have happened, he had waited from the original September 1 to the present, but he didn't expect the delay caused by the butterfly effect to finally arrive on the 8th.

Stroking He Ning's baby-like sleeping face, Zhang Shusheng put on his clothes, got out of bed and picked up the emergency phone.

"I'm Zhang Shusheng." Zhang Shusheng picked up the microphone, and the voice of Luo Feng, the head of the Special Intelligence Department, was on the other end. "Okay, I got it."

With a simple sentence, Zhang Shusheng hung up the phone after listening to it, and then turned around, only to find that He Ning had already opened his eyes, and asked lazily, "Be careful, what's the emergency?" ”

Zhang Shusheng said with a smile while putting on his clothes, "It's nothing, it's just that the Germans have attacked Poland." ”

"Uh, how many times have they been? As if the last time it was Czechoslovakia. He Ning muttered, not realizing that World War II had officially broken out, and she also got up and dressed.

Zhang Shusheng got dressed, turned around and hugged her, and said lovingly, "Wife, I have good news for you." World War II has officially begun! ”――

Hooray, finally in the fourth volume. After the first volume: The Great Era Volume II: Southwest Wind and Cloud Volume 3: The Road to the Republic, and three volumes, I finally entered the fourth volume: World War II for the Chinese.

(To be continued)