Chapter 164: Heaven, Hell, Redemption, Transformation, Preparation
In the course of the brewing of the April 12 counter-revolutionary incident in 1927, the comprador forces headed by Yu Qiaqing, under the instruction of the American and British international financiers, went around in tandem to buy off the counterrevolutionary forces, and Chang Kaishen was the spokesman for the interests of the comprador bourgeoisie. When the workers' pickets in Shanghai collapsed, countless CCP members and leftist progressives in the Kuomintang were buried alive, beheaded, tortured and killed, and even exterminated by their entire families.
One of the origins of this blood debt is the tycoons of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang consortium in Shanghai, who are the general backstage of these murderers and the instigators of the destruction of China's great shape during the Great Revolution!
Whether in the past life or in the present life, Lin Han hated the word comprador deeply.
"Two thousand years ago, Han Feizi wrote an article "Five Worms", and the comprador is the five worms of China in this era! And it's the biggest beetle! There are those who attach importance to education to become a strong country, some are engaged in heavy industry, and some are engaged in high-tech power, who has ever heard that compradors, finance, and real estate can make the country strong? cough, no one plays real estate speculation in this era, have you ever heard of a left-handed exchange for a right-handed, empty glove white wolf power? β
"Those bankers and compradors in Shanghai are the spokesmen and executors of the imperialist countries' plundering of China's wealth, and they are the backers of the traitorous forces of the Artillery Party headed by Chang Kaishen and Song Ziwen. They are naturally antagonistic and hostile to the proletariat, and there is no possibility of reconciliation between them! Only dead compradors are good compradors, those bankers on the beach. Compradors, it's time for them to shoot for an hour after shooting! β
As early as a year before the Red Army entered Shanghai, his plan for Wuhan was that after entering Shanghai, all of Shanghai's financial capitalists, comprador capitalists, and Jiangsu-Zhejiang consortium forces, except for a very small number of special personnel with meritorious service, should all be able to hang street lamps. If it weren't for the fact that the identities of those foreign directors in the concession were too big. Lin Han wanted to incite the upper echelons of the Red Army to kill them all.
Lin Han's attitude on this issue is tough. The weight of the killing intent, the leftism of the world view, and even many high-ranking party leaders who secretly believe that he is somewhat "right" in their hearts, think that his attitude is too extreme. In his letter to Li Runshi and Wu Hao. Lin Han said a carload of bad things to the gang.
"In the era I came over. Although it is the twenty-first century. But the whole world is tossed into a miasma by the evil creatures of financiers, compradors, and chaebols! These do not do business. The profiteers who rely on speculation and short selling to raise prices, do you know how crazy they are? In the United States, they played financial speculation and lost trillions, and then kidnapped the U.S. government to print money to save the world, and used the depreciation of banknotes to rob the people of the world to save themselves. Let's not talk about the recent era, the same is true of the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929, which triggered the world economic crisis. This gang of people who play finance first speculated on stocks and made a lot of money, then smashed the market, and then took over below, bought back many things that were several times more valuable at a low price, and then robbed them again, and then shouted that the government came forward to save the market, and used the method of depreciating banknotes to rob all the people again for the third time. Here's how it happened, I'll explain it to you slowly."
From a sociological point of view, the prosperity of Shanghai, the financial center of the Far East, was based on the blood and tears of the entire Chinese people at that time.
In Shanghai before the liberation, underworld and evil forces were rampant in society, and stock exchanges and other financial institutions lacked the necessary regulatory system, so that all kinds of speculation and speculation were all the rage, and speculators and brokers were flooded with financial circles, and one by one they wanted to make something out of nothing and get rich overnight, taking public bonds and real estate as the main investment objects, creating one huge financial bubble after another, and refusing to run the industry in a down-to-earth manner...... The prosperity of the whole of Shanghai is like a castle in the air, lacking an industrial foundation.
How can ordinary Chinese stock market players play with foreign speculators who are born in old capitalist countries, have played financial speculation for hundreds of years, have rich experience, and have ten or even a hundred times the capital of their foreign speculators? What's more, the Shanghai Stock Exchange at this time was itself opened by foreigners.
"Players and referees can't have any chance of winning the game!"
In fact, the proletarian revolutionaries of this era understand this truth. Historically, the "rubber stock market crash" that broke out in Shanghai on the eve of Xinhai was an economic robbery carried out by foreign capital forces against China through "financial magic". Before the liberation, the Shanghai Stock Exchange was basically a tool for the imperialist forces to plunder China's wealth, and the financial giants who engaged in this unlimited business were essentially their accomplices.
The comrades of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of Germany, who came from "capitalist countries", knew more about these "magicians" in the financial industry, and their hatred of Cheng DΓΉ was no less than that of Lin Han. Their attitudes and opinions were strikingly consistent with those of Lin Han in this respect, and as a result, the vast majority of the bankers, financial capitalists, and compradors in Shanghai were characterized as anti-people, and the counter-revolutionary forces were resolutely suppressed.
In the end, countless big figures in the financial industry who used to call for wind and rain in Shanghai in the past also became the second batch of targets to be resolutely suppressed (crabs) like Huang Rong Du Yuesheng. (I wanted to write more, but I thought about it, and I won't sell my private goods)
In the concession area of Shanghai now, in fact, the people Lin Han wanted to kill the most were not the imperialist accomplices who had just been shot, but their backstage masters, the foreign directors of the International Chamber of Commerce, the bankers of the foreign banks, the foreigners who managed the Shanghai securities market, and the financial promoters behind the scenes. It's a pity that in order to take care of the overall situation, now they have to let these foreign robbers live
However, because the Red Army took Shanghai and swept away the wealth they had plundered in China through financial magic, the vast majority of these men would face bankruptcy, and many would commit suicide as a result.
Despite this, Lin Han still gritted his teeth with hatred for these guys who played financial magic to make huge profits, and he complained to Li Huamei:
"You can't hang all these people with street lamps and shoot them for 10 minutes, and then they will be executed. I'm really upset with my mother. β
Li Huamei replied to him coldly: "Father, I know that before May this year, you and Hannah united with the Morgan and Rockefeller consortium in the United States, and they have been secretly shorting the stocks of countries and banks related to these financial institutions in Shanghai. β
Lin Han was stunned and muttered and complained: "Ahem, I am snatching back the money that was stolen by the financial capitalists and giving it to the Chinese proletariat. Otherwise, where would I have come up with so much money to support the Chinese revolution? I used to rob 35 tons of gold from HSBC in the UK, and I have already used it up in the past few years, international student. Training pilots. Buy a machine, buy arms, buy artillery, and use money everywhere! Hannah's mother-in-law refused to offer a cheap deal, and she insisted on making 10 to 20 percent of my profits! These are bottomless pits. That bit of gold is enough to fill it."
It's a handful of blood and tears when I think about it. In the past few years, Lin Han has made more than 100 million dollars by all means. But the amount of money spent is just as much, if not more. For this reason, he also owes Katyusha a lot of debts, so much so that from time to time he has to "sell" bad girls to "pay off their debts physically".
Imperialist countries have never been monolithic, so the US government is "indifferent" to China's sudden changes. It is also because they have long been under the guidance of Hannah, and they have already sharpened their knives and used financial means to use this incident to cut the flesh of Britain. The sudden change in the Far East of Shanghai has caused the value of the British pound to plummet, and the stock market in London has plummeted, and after today, the concession has fallen into the hands of the Red Army, and the wealth of banks in China has been wiped out.
Germany and the United States, which secretly joined forces and shorted in advance, both made a big deal in this incident. The U.S. government's attitude toward South China so far is precisely because in the process, they have also slaughtered the British through the financial market. In this matter, Lin Han even knew that the Soviet Union, which knew the specific time and strategic objectives of the Red Army's attack, also secretly made a move in advance in the international financial market through secret channels, and also made a big profit. Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union are sworn enemies of each other, but they sharpen their knives together in this matter. (Note: The British nickname is John Bull, commonly known as Niu Niu)
In the course of China's abrupt changes, the biggest losses were in Britain, France, Japan, and those in Western Europe that had banks in Shanghai.
On Saturday, June 15, 1939, after the news of the situation in Shanghai, China reached Britain, and the London stock market opened the day after tomorrow, Lin Han could already foresee how ugly the face of the financier on the British stock exchange would be, and there would be countless "jumping shows" in London.
After 1933, after the outbreak of economic crises in capitalist countries, with the advent of the Great Depression, a global economic crisis, China was no exception. Many of the factories of the democratic capitalists in Shanghai have closed down on a large scale, and tens of thousands of workers have lost their jobs, and at the most time 600,000 to 800,000 people have lost their jobs. (This is a historical fact from 1933 to 1935)
In this plane, due to the early rise of the Red Army in the south, these closed factories were purchased by Lin Han at a very low price, and the machines in the factories were packed and transported to the base area along with the skilled workers of the factory. By the time the war began in 1935, more than half of Shanghai's industry had been lost to the Soviet Union, and those that remained were related to the military industry.
The "most reactionary" place of the strange comprador regime of the Nanjing Nationalist Government is also here. Knowing that the Red Army would only make the opponent stronger if these things were bought, but under the guidance of the idea of "making is better than buying", in this era of economic crisis and global depression, he was not willing for the government to pay money to rescue these precious national capital forces, and finally packaged and "sent" them all to the Red Army.
The essence of the crisis of the capitalist economy is that the products produced in society exceed the purchasing and spending power of ordinary people. The factories that were packed and sent to the Soviet districts, after they were reopened, were given a new lease of life in the Soviet districts. The nascent Red regime did not have the deformed "divide between the rich and the poor" like Shanghai, and although it was limited by the level of productive forces and the living standards of the common people were not very rich, it was much better than the areas ruled by the Cannon Party, where the gap between the rich and the poor was strict. The products produced by the new factory, even if they work 24 hours a day and three shifts, still cannot meet the needs of the huge marketββββ and these products can be easily digested by means of voucher supply alone.
In fact, the market is far from saturated, but in a state of extreme hunger. It is just that backward productive forces, exorbitant taxes, and bloody oppression have deprived the people of their spending power. In the Red Army-controlled districts, the people's spending power was far greater than that of the five provinces of the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, and the products produced by the transferred factories after they started working were digested by the hungry market without even making a splash.
"Fight local tyrants and divide the land", later generations of petty bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie are small and fresh, and there are also so-called "self-done capitalists", "self-made big landlords", and "self-made rich people", unable to understand the necessity of doing this. They chanted "the sanctity of private property". But I don't understand that in this dark age when the gap between the rich and the poor is so big that one side is heaven and the other is hell, "fight local tyrants." "Dividing the land" is the act of true justice. Those guys are obviously their own dicks. But I can't figure out who I am. Self-proclaimed "self-employed capitalists, self-employed Zhao, self-employed X second generation" online petty bourgeoisie freshmen who think they are "rich and rich and surnamed Zhao". I don't know what I say or do, but I am actually doing stupid things like "the poor middle peasants oppose the land reform" and "the sweatshop workers oppose the labor movement". (Note: Self-employed capitalists: netizens who think they are capitalists and bring their own dry food for the interests of capitalists, referred to as: self-employed capitalists, others are the same as above)
After the Red Army entered Shanghai in 1935, many of the factories that survived at this time still had to be grateful to the Red Army - in the "currency war" of the past two years, the Red Army took the "German version of foreign exchange" printed by Lin Han and placed a lot of orders in these factories. Over the past two years or so, the factories in this part of Shanghai have produced more military supplies to the Red Army than to the White Army. In the process of purchasing products, the underground party took the "German version of foreign exchange" and the "German version of legal tender" provided by Lin Han, and secretly bought many factories in the form of equity participation, joint ventures, and even acquisitions, many of which had long been deposited with a "red background".
Of course, the losses caused by this kind of indiscriminate issuance of "foreign exchange" naturally have to be borne by the whole world.
The Red Army did not directly seize the remaining national capital enterprises, but planned to implement the "redemption" system of socialist transformation, as it had done in history. However, at this time, the "living" national capital enterprises in Greater Shanghai were less than one-quarter of what they were at their peak. Now that the "general trend" is on the side of the Red Army, they will not be able to cooperate without cooperation.
Now that Shanghai is about to become a battlefield, these companies, whether state-owned or privately owned, are now facing the problem of relocation and relocation, especially those that are too close to the sea.
Suppressing the underworld forces and comprador financial forces on the beach is only to deter the hidden hostility, rescue the people, and let the common people enjoy the "dividends of the revolution", which is also the key to the revolution, and it is even more important.
After entering Shanghai, the Red Army opened its warehouses, opened its granaries, and began to relieve the poor and hungry in the shack areas. At the same time, the red propaganda team, which had been prepared for a long time, walked up and carried a bucket of lime water or black putty and painted slogans on the wall.
In order to attract the attention and mobilize the masses to the maximum, the content of the slogans of the Red Army was all the most practical:
"Abolish a single excesses tax! Abolish usurious lending! β
"Relief for unemployed laborers and suffering people!"
"Raise wages and meals to improve the lives of workers and staff!" οΌ
"No matter how big or small a businessman operates legally, he is free to do business in accordance with the Soviet decree and protect the interests of small and medium-sized businessmen!" (Of course, those compradors and financial giants are not protected)
"Oppose profiteers slacking off their businesses and closing the market and raising prices!"
In this process, the students trained by Lin Han in the past also participated in the process, although they had studied in Germany, but in his letters to the leaders of the Red Army, Lin Han repeatedly asked them to "go down to the lowest level as much as possible to be grounded", and he said to Chairman Li very bluntly:
"Like you, the overseas Chinese community needs the same proletarian revolutionary fighters who really know how to look downward, not the petty-bourgeois romantics who regard "revolutionary work" as a "fashionable game". β
In the process, some people couldn't stand the pain and quit, but more people still gritted their teeth and persevered. According to Lin Han's plan, when the affairs of Southern China stabilized, Lin Han took some of his students into Nanyang as "refugees" and began to plan a lot of Nanyang founding work. He has been preparing for many years of planning for the establishment of a state in Nanyang, and has been laying out there for several years, and what is most lacking is a large number of cadres and talents with practical experience, and this is also the agreement he reached with the leaders of the Soviet region.
Lin Han is just a speculator, but he knows very well what kind of talent he needs.
And the real revolutionaries of China in this era understand that it is not enough to shout slogans, but also to take concrete actions.
In the shanty area of Shanghai Beach, a large pot of rice and jerky was set up, a pot of chowder was cooked, and the local people were invited to bring their own dishes and chopsticks to eat, and in the course of the meal they were to publicize the policies of the Red Army -- these methods were already familiar to the Red Army, which had been carrying out the urban and rural revolutions for many years.
"Mobilize the masses, guide the masses, and let the masses understand that 'the Red Army is an army of the poor and a contingent of toiling masses fighting,' and let them stand on our side." In addition to saying it, we must also do it; in the past few years, the Red Army in the south has used this kind of tried and tested means to win victory after victory in the war in the south, and Shanghai will not be an exception.
At the same time, from the first day of entering Shanghai, the Red Army stepped forward to hire more than 100,000 people, and even took matters into their own hands, and began to clean up the mountains of garbage in the shack areas, dredge the rivers, and carry out sanitation activities to eliminate mosquitoes and flies.
It is precisely because Shanghai is about to become a battlefield that it is all the more necessary to clean up the garbage in the suburbs as soon as possible, and the urban sanitation work cannot be delayed. June is the rainy season in Shanghai, and summer is about to begin, which is the peak season for mosquito breeding. Once a major war breaks out, if left untreated, the poor sanitation in the slums will only deteriorate, and the plague will be more likely to occur.
Revolution is not only destruction, revolution is production, but also to liberate the productive forces.
Although a day or two later Shanghai will attract a group of foreign intervention troops, the early battles will at most be in the outer areas of Shanghai.
If foreign forces want to interfere in China, they can't do it right away just by thinking about it. It takes time for the general mobilization of war, it takes time to prepare for the hoarding of materials, and it takes time to coordinate personnel. Historically, from the July 7 Incident to the entry of a large number of Japanese reinforcements into Shanghai, there was a gap of more than a month.
Although Japan in 1935 had been prepared for a long time, it was not fully prepared due to an incorrect estimation of the time when the Red Army would launch the war. Coupled with the fact that Lin Han secretly did a bunch of sabotage and the assassination of the emperor, he is now in chaos within himself, and the mobilization efficiency has greatly decreased. Although 4,000 intervention troops were dispatched "in time" to walk on the road, it was already the limit of Japan at this time. But this point is sprinkled on the battlefield in southern China, that is, "food delivery".
As for the British, the most they can dispatch in the short term is the navy, and the nearest colonial army to China will also be transferred in a month.
Therefore, in the event of a war in Shanghai, the first month will only be along the coastline and attacks from the air force and naval artillery.
Before the start of the all-out war, the Red Army actually had about a month to mobilize the masses, relocate the factories, and consolidate the forces of the newly liberated areas.
Under the temptation of constant propaganda and tangible "revolutionary dividends", the masses in and around Shanghai were soon mobilized. In the coming month, those saboteurs who want to take advantage of the opportunity to stir up and spread rumors, and the criminal syndicates and evil elements who have gone into hiding, will disappear from the vast sea of "people's war and mass movement" without even making a splash in front of the masses who have been mobilized. And those imperialist countries, especially Japan, have planted all kinds of spies in Shanghai, and they are also trembling and panicking all day long under such a large shape.
The power of the Chinese people is actually very strong, and as long as there is a strong political party that organizes them and guides them in the right direction, the power that erupts is extremely terrifying. (To be continued......)
PS: Note: This is written until now, every month there are fools who can't see clearly what their class is jumping up and down in the forum, I have no obligation to help these "self-done capitalists, self-done landlords, self-done X second generation, self-done Zhao", and can't distinguish the difference between "Wumao and Mao Zuo" Fools to improve their IQ, this kind of idiot, I will block one when one appears in the forum, and I don't have time to pay attention to you.