An envelope, a piece of paper, and the news it brings are often devastating, and such a letter can destroy a family, enough to destroy all the hopes of a family.

In the old small office on Youmin Street in Nanjing, Wang Anli sat on his swivel chair silently shed tears, the weather at noon seemed a little hot, but at this time. What he felt was a chill to the bone, and on the floor beneath his feet lay a piece of paper, a sheet of paper printed in ink and then handwritten.

"Dear Mr. Wang Anli, on behalf of the War Department, I am very sorry to tell you......"

Such a thin piece of paper brought the news that Wang Anli's whole person was almost collapsed, and his son was killed in battle!

Died on an unknown battlefield in the Middle East, in an unknown battle that was not even reported in the newspapers, although on that thin piece of paper was still written, "...... It was Reiko's sacrifice that enabled us to win this crucial battle! ”

However, all of this is a scene, it is all rational, and it is all ......

At this time, Luke had already walked in, Wang Anli wiped his eyes with both hands to wipe away his tears, and at the same time hurriedly stood up, but anyone could see that his eyes were red and his sockets were black.

"Manager Lu."

"Lixin, I'm sad to hear the unfortunate news of Reiko."

The manager's consolation made the red eyes shed tears again, and then his eyes involuntarily moved to the table, which was a photo of him and his son, in the photo, the son had a proud smile on his face, yes. He had enough reason to be proud, because he was admitted to Nanjing Imperial University, which is the first-class school in the country, and he did it with excellent results.

Once upon a time, Wang Anli planned the future for him. In his opinion, his future should be a great businessman, and perhaps, one day, he will become the manager of a large enterprise. But the fate of man is always so fickle, the fate of man is always so incredible, and everything changes with a protest.

The son, who had made him proud, went from being a student to a criminal overnight, and then sent to the army, where he was revised. This may be a good thing, in Wang Anli's view, his son is good, but he is too excited and sensitive, for Wang Anli, who lived in the late Qing Dynasty. He never saw anything wrong with the country now, and in his opinion, there was no better time than now.

But his son didn't think so, he had to go to some protest, he had to go to some march. Don't have to...... It's okay now, a thin piece of paper, tell Wang Anli clearly. His only son...... He's dead!

Died on the battlefield!

"Back then, I thought ...... Someday, he could be someone like a manager! ”

As he spoke, Wang Anli's tears flowed out, and he was once full of hope for his son.

"Even if he was sent to the army. But there is still a chance to go back to university in the future, and there will still be a chance in the future. I want to go to the army, it's not a bad thing! This can be regarded as an extrajudicial favor of His Majesty! ”

When Wang Anli was talking to himself, Luke had already taken the initiative to take out a bottle of wine and then poured him a glass.

"Well, I haven't been in the army, but I know that the army can always let him learn more things, at least let him understand that many things are not as simple as he thinks, young people like him always think that everything should be what they imagined, but, but we all know that there is nothing wrong with the emperor, but what is wrong with this empire? Is there a better time than now? ”

Shaking his head, Wang Anli still said to himself. …,

"I don't know, I don't think there should be!"

Handed him a glass of wine, Cao Ke didn't say anything, just drank a glass of his own, and now, his old friend needed to drink something.

"There was a war, he went to the front, I was worried...... Now, in the end, the most feared thing is still here. ”

As he spoke, Wang Anli's haggard and sad face, swollen eyes, unkempt hair, and weak voice could all be attributed to the incomparable sadness in his heart, and looking at the appearance of his old friend, Cao Ke already knew that perhaps all this today was the heaviest blow he had suffered in his life, and even in the past, when he was at his lowest mood - he had days when he was very depressed - he had never lost his tenacious and unyielding edge. What he saw now was a depressed and sad middle-aged man over forty.

The most painful thing in the world is more than a white-haired person sending a black-haired person

"Do you believe in hunches?"

The liquor made Wang Anli's voice hoarse.

"I can't tell. What's wrong with you? ”

"Ever since he went out with the army, I always thought something was going to happen, but I never wanted to believe that he was so smart that nothing would happen."

Raising his glass sadly, Wang Anli, who didn't drink much, drank it all.

"You know, I don't believe in any gods and ghosts at all, I only believe in things that I can see, hear, and touch. But now, ...... I believed, and I knew that the hunch might be ......."

Then Wang Anli fell silent, and then he continued.

"After he went to the front, he wrote me a letter."

"What is in the letter?"

Cao Ke asked.

"He asked, what is this war for? Is it for the country? If we don't like people invading us, why do we go to war with other countries? ”

"I told him in my reply that because His Majesty wants us to fight, because if we don't fight, others will come to our doorstep......"

At this time, Wang Anli's emotions became more and more complicated, he raised his head to look at his old friend, and asked in a squeak.

"Manager, you have acquaintances in every way, don't you? Can you ask why we are fighting this battle, let ...... Let his death be worthwhile, and his death be more understanding......"

The prayers of old friends were exchanged for Cao Keji's silence, dealing with such painful news. The way he was doing now was an extraordinary performance, it was extraordinary, and he wanted to know why. Can...... And how many people know why? Why do we have to fight?

"No one knows why?"

Wang Anli's face became complicated.

"I know, no one knows, why, why do you have to fight."

He looked at the manager with blank eyes, who was also his old friend. Wang Anli repeated a sentence a little dazedly:

"No one knows, why do you have to fight?"

"There are many times when we don't know why, and when we think about it, the country ...... There is a reason for the country! ”

Cao Ke said helplessly, who knows why he is fighting? Why is it so important to fight? But looking at the appearance of his old friend, he didn't care why he was fighting in the past. But now, perhaps as he said, his son needed a reason, just as he had done against the Manchu colonial rule, and those people had died as they deserved. That's why they chanted "pray for death in battle" and threw themselves into the battlefield without hesitation, the dead soldiers entered the Lingyan Pavilion to become gods in the human world, and the living soldiers became heroes, but what about this war?

What kind of war is this?

"This is a just war!" …,

Li Zhiping, whose eyes were dark and his eyes flashed with some excitement, looked at several colleagues in the editorial department, although his expression seemed to be very excited. But he said in a gentle, calm and unconventional tone.

"All the while, there are some people, and they're always in the midst of why?"

His words were paused.

"Why fight?"

"Why do young people die in battle?"

"We are suffering from the invasion of Westerners. Why do you want to help Westerners? ”

"Why break with Germany?"

A succession of questions came out of Li Zhiping's mouth, and he seemed to be asking them, and finally he sharpened his tone again. "Now, we finally have a reason!"

Li Zhiping, who looked a little excited, took out a pen from his jacket pocket, sat at the desk, and began to draw on a piece of yellow paper.

"Look. This is the Ottoman Empire before the outbreak of the war, right? This is Istanbul. Here it is......"

It's a skilful geographical sketch that's a quick hit, and as a news editor, there's no denying that there's some talent for drawing maps.

"Why are we involved in this war? Few people knew about it in the past, but what about now? But we know why we are enemies of the Ottomans. Is it because he's too weak? Is it because of the oil in the Middle East? Of course not, by no means! ”

At this time, on the map, there was another twisted thick line, and then Li Zhiping drew more than a dozen thick and black circles on this line.

"Look here, this is the Euphrates, have you heard of the concentration camps?"

Concentration camp!

This is the information he has just received, and it is also a task he has just been tasked with, to "justify" this war through the coverage of the Ottoman concentration camps and its massacre of Armenians, so that the people can understand why China is fighting - for justice!

It was, and it is!

Obviously, few people had heard of concentration camps, at least not before that, the Guards had not noticed the existence of concentration camps, and now, soon, all of China will know about the existence of concentration camps and will understand what China is fighting for.

"I just spent a few days talking to some of the staff officers of the Guards General Staff, the Armenian massacre, have you heard of it, it's quite a good news subject!"

At this time, his whole body became excited, what is more attractive to the audience's eyes than the genocide, the revolution in Russia that has taken place, perhaps for some people, is not a big deal, although he has constantly used all kinds of words and stories to stimulate the psychology of the people, but those have not been able to establish an image - the image of a righteous China!

And now, this massacre and concentration camp were delivered to him like a gift from God!

"Now this content is probably going to be the most important news in this war. The journalist who reported the news will go down in history. ...... here"

Drawing some locations on the map with a pen, he continued.

"The Turks drove Armenians from their homeland here like cattle, and here they killed people in droves like rats"

He pointed round and round with a pen and said:

"Here it is. Here, and here. As I said, there are still such places, but they have been confirmed, and we have even laid down a concentration camp. And also liberated some Armenians. ”

"Editor-in-chief, the Armenian massacre, is no longer news. This kind of news has been reported for two or three years, and foreign countries have reported it for a long time. ”

Reminds the editor-in-chief that the Armenian massacre is no secret. Hundreds of eyewitnesses, including from the then-neutral United States and the Ottoman allies, Germany and Austria-Hungary, have documented many government-backed massacres. Many foreign officials, as well as Pope Benedict XV, offered to intervene to assist the Armenians, but were pushed back by Ottoman government officials who claimed to be taking revenge on the pro-Russian rebellion. Two years earlier, the Four-Power Entente, in which China was a party, warned the Ottoman Empire that "in view of these new crimes against humanity and civilization committed by Turkey, the Allied government publicly declared that all the personnel of the Ottoman government and those involved in the massacres who acted for them would be held personally responsible for such crimes." …,

When the United States was not at war, it had a number of consulates in the Ottoman Empire. Other American Protestant missionaries have offices in Armenian-populated areas. The plight of Armenians is often reported in newspapers and publications around the world.

Many Americans openly criticized the Holocaust, including Stephen? Samuel? Wise, William? Jennings? Brian and former President Roosevelt Sr., among others.

"You didn't understand what I meant."

In the face of the staff's rebuttal, Li Zhiping strengthened his tone.

"I'm talking about an organized, systematic massacre of a million people. At this time of my conversation with you. The massacres are being carried out on a large scale. This is a genocide that shocked the world enough! This is the most tragic scene in the history of modern civilization, don't you call it news? So what counts as news? This is the most atrocious crime in the history of mankind. It dwarfs all past wars. This is a new phenomenon in life on Earth. This is what is happening, and it is about halfway through it right now. Isn't that a news story? ”

Listening to the editor-in-chief say this, I just sighed helplessly in my heart, in some American newspapers. He had seen many reports of the Armenian massacre. None of this is new. Of course, the Turks were also a gang of vicious thugs. Just to get rid of this group of guys from the world, this war is worth fighting.

Worth it......

Suddenly, he seemed to understand why the editor-in-chief had specifically mentioned the massacre, and he looked up at the editor-in-chief in surprise.

"Editor-in-chief, you mean. Through the massacres in Turkey, we are telling our people why we are fighting this war. We are not fighting this war to expand our colonies, not to open up living space, not even to oil or even oil, and certainly not to curry favor with Westerners, but to ......"

"For justice!"

When these four words are spoken. Li Zhiping hurriedly wrote an address in his notebook and tore it off.

"Listen to me, now. The Guards have liberated a number of concentration camps, and in these camps, thousands of surviving Armenians have been liberated, and the camps are located here, and are now controlled by the Guards."

A skinny finger pointed hard at the sketch on the table.

"In the vicinity of the Euphrates River, the troops on the front line will soon send out pictures by plane, and there are some Armenians, and we are telling the truth, and if we publish it first, it will cause a sensation, and it will cause a sensation in all of China."

Li Zhiping stretched out his skinny hand straight, and he casually wrote a few precautions on the paper.

"Now, we need to use the tragic experience of a nation to tell the whole of China, to tell those who once blamed this war, to tell them what we are fighting for, we are also a nation that has suffered all kinds of hardships, we have also suffered genocide, we have survived tenaciously, we have fought for national freedom and national liberation, and now, we are free, why should we fight this war? It is because in this world, there are other nations that have suffered the same tragic experience as us, and we want to liberate them, ours, those heroic soldiers, they are defending justice with their blood, and such justice is determined by conscience! ”

Justice is determined by conscience!

At this point, he began to admire his old friend, who always made some suggestions, and now, after they had rendered this war as a just war through the newspapers, then in the future, perhaps the country would fight another just war, and all interference had an indelible reason - justice!

Nothing to do with interests, just for justice!

Perhaps, at that time, he will succeed, just like the idea that revolution is equal to riot and riot is equal to turmoil, just like the idea that revolution is equal to riot and riot is equal to turmoil, maybe one day, the Guards will send troops to Russia for the sake of justice and liberate the "suffering" Russians there, and the reason is ...... For justice!

Thinking of all this, the old smile on his face made his somewhat haggard cheeks look a little more energetic, and even those eyes shone brightly.

"Okay, my friends, let's write all this together, to tell the people of Turkey what is happening, what is going on there, and in the end, all the people of the country will know that in addition to the country's own security, there are some things that are worth pursuing and sacrificing."