In the turbulent era of the Republic of China, Shanghai Tang, with its "ten-mile ocean", was one of the most prosperous international metropolises in Asia at that time. When the entire land of China fell into turmoil and war, the existence of foreign concessions made the core urban area of Shanghai unaffected by the war, and enjoyed an actual independent status and full and convenient international connections, so Chinese and foreign bankers liked to open financial institutions here.

Even the central bank and central treasury of the Kuomintang regime in Nanjing were located in Shanghai at this time, not in Nanjing.

In the past years, countless speculators and financiers have been in the thick and easy here, either dreaming of getting rich overnight, or ruthlessly squeezing the blood and sweat of the Chinese people, and playing with countless seemingly majestic warlords and politicians in applause.

It is the so-called "wind and rain are always blown away", with the red wave sweeping the whole of South China, the "Oriental Paris dream" of Shanghai's financial industry has become a thing of the past.

The Red Army of the South conquered Shanghai with lightning speed, took the concession, and the wealth and inventory of banks in Shanghai became all the trophies of the Red Army.

The Red Army let the Bank of America go because the Red Army did not yet want to be the enemy of the capitalist world as a whole, and the Red Army top brass had foreseen that in the coming days, southern China would face a long-term blockade by the imperialist countries. Leaving the Bank of America is leaving an "exit" for yourself. However, even if the Bank of America is not seized, it will not be so easy for Citibank to transport away the gold and silver they have stored in the Bank of Shanghai.

To put it bluntly. The Bank of America's vaults in Shanghai were a bargaining chip for the Red Army and the Americans.

As for ABN AMRO, its capital is too small, and Lin Han's layout in Southeast Asia needs to be spared, so they are temporarily spared.

As for other banks in Shanghai, such as Yokohama Zhengjin Bank, HSBC, UBS, Standard Chartered Bank, Crédit Agricole CIB, ...... It's all boiled in one pot.

When the Red Army entered the public concession, the first thing they did was to seize these banks, seize and seal all the bills, and then count the stocks. In the past few years, the Germans have been "laundering" money through Shanghai, in addition to making huge profits. It also penetrates the internal staff of each bank very deeply. Someone did it. There is no way for foreign devils to do anything if they want to.

The concession authorities protested against the Red Army's failure to fulfill its promise to "protect private property," and the Red Army officer who negotiated replied: "These are the property of the Chinese people, not the property of the capitalist compradors, we are protecting the property of the Chinese people." ”

And then these foreigners. I can only ask the sky speechlessly.

In fact, it was as early as the day before the Red Army entered Shanghai. Banks in Shanghai plan to urgently remove all the gold and silver in stockpiles. But who knew that the Red Army was so quick that it only hit the edge of Shanghai during the day, and on the same night it used the "silver bullet" to capture the entire Huajie area of Shanghai. On the evening of the second day, he even won the Japanese concession.

This lightning-fast move is so fast that banks in various countries have no time to move their property inventory. When the Nanjing Nationalist Government fled to Shanghai, it also wanted to load the gold and silver from the central bank's inventory on the Zhongshan ship, but who knew that as soon as they thought of doing so, Sun Yuanliang's subordinates "revolted" one after another, and they were also caught off guard.

During the day of the 15th, after seizing the banks of various countries, the Red Army counted the stocks a little, and was immediately overjoyed. The total amount of gold in the banks of various countries is more than 550 tons, more than 300 million silver dollars, and the total weight of silver is more than 1,000 tons. (This number jù refers to the historical number of the Bank of Shanghai in 1935). If it weren't for Germany's desperate efforts to use the "German version of foreign exchange" to buy precious metals in Shanghai in recent years, the inventory of gold and silver here would have been lost a lot, and the inventory here would have increased by at least 30 percent.

Looking at the mountains of gold and silver in the library, Lin Han was also so happy that he smiled and said to Xiao Bailang:

"The $500,000 purchase fee is really worth it, if you take Shanghai one day late, how much of the money here will escape and be smuggled!"

Lin Han took a look at the list of accounts handed in, although there were many gold and silver stocks in the banks of various countries in Shanghai, in fact, the ownership basically did not belong to the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and in 1935, the finances of the Nanjing Nationalist Government were on the verge of collapse, and their wealth was turned into arms or squeezed out by foreign financial capital by various means. However, these are all in the past now, and they all belong to the Chinese people now.

"Gengzi Indemnity, Treaty of Shimonoseki, Sino-British Treaty of Nanjing...... In the past hundred years, China has been robbed of some of the wealth that has been stolen from Chinese soil by foreign devils. ”

Lin Han nodded with satisfaction, and suddenly remembered one more thing, and reminded Li Huamei on the side:

"Citibank, we can't touch him for the time being, but don't let them get too upset. Those cannon party moths have a lot of savings in Citi, and we are now holding Citi in the Shanghai vault, and we have to use this to force them to spit out. Don't give the moths who have fled abroad a chance to take the wealth. Ask someone to check the details of Citibank's books, and if Citibank doesn't agree to spit out these people's deposits at Citibank, we will go directly to their vault and move it. ”

Looking at the sea of gold and silver in the Shanghai vault, Lin Hai finally put his mind at ease now. In the past, he racked his brains to aid the Communist Party, and he paid for it all by himself. But the money he paid was nothing compared to the harvest in the Shanghai treasury. In the next few years, as long as China can get a period of peace, the start-up capital needed to industrialize will also be available.

But Lin Han also knew that this "peace" would not be so easy to obtain, and that the war between the Red Army of the South, well, it should now be said that it was a nascent republic and a foreign intervention army, was not far off. The Red Regime, which had just destroyed the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, was now qualified to claim to be the representative of China.

"Whether it's the female vampire or the bearded man, I'm afraid they're also playing with the idea of this gold now."

Lin Han understood at this time, at the end of 1934, why his cheap daughter Adolf suddenly became generous. In one fell swoop, she exported a large number of arms and machines to the Red Army in the south in the form of "credit", and she obviously knew the wealth here and knew that the Red Army would have to pay off its debts.

The seizure of foreign banks in the Shanghai Concession was just one of many things that the Red Army did after the occupation of Shanghai. The Japanese intervention force, or the invading army, was already on its way to China, and Shanghai was adjacent to the sea, and many areas were within the range of foreign naval guns.

After occupying the concession, the Red Army seized all the warehouses in the concession and put them under military control. Then they raced against time to start rushing to transport materials and relocate factories.

All factory facilities and warehouses within 30 kilometers of the coast were to be transferred, a work that had already begun after entering Shanghai on the 14th, and reached its peak after the concession was taken on the 15th. On the banks of the Huangpu River. Countless ships come and go. All kinds of materials placed in the dock warehouse are constantly loaded and transported away. All the steamers anchored in the Huangpu River were forcibly requisitioned at this time. As for the railway, all the train wagons from Shanghai to Nanjing were also requisitioned, and the Red Army that entered Shanghai mobilized more than 100,000 people. Begin to race against time to move supplies. Transfer of the plant.

Imported machines from overseas. Chemical products, fuel oil, are priority transportation materials, some factories too close to the sea. Relocation is also underway. History has changed beyond recognition, and the problems facing the Red Army are no longer only the problems of China and Japan, but the contradictions between China and the entire imperialist system.

Although Japan was the only one that was ready to intervene in the Chinese revolution (in fact, it wanted to take the opportunity to invade China), and the British would also take action if they were pitted badly, the pressure on the Red Army was definitely much greater than that of the artillery party in 1937. Fortunately, the power in the hands of today's China, the newly born southern red China, is definitely not comparable to that of a regime like the Artillery Party, which has brought disaster to the country and the people.

The place where Lin Han and Li Huamei spoke was not in the Shanghai Concession, but on the river at Wusongkou. At this time, Lin Han had already transferred the spirit core from the Pinghai back to the Sephiroth. After firing six shells at the Public Concession during the demonstration last night, the Pinghai returned to the Jiangnan Shipyard, unloaded the core and moved back to the Sephiroth.

Then the Pinghai began to undergo emergency air defense transformation, and the triple Japanese-style 25-mm anti-aircraft guns installed on the Pinghai were comparable to the German 37-mm hand-drawn anti-aircraft guns that were shot by Hannah. Of the large quantities of munitions that Lin Han's cheap daughter Adolf generously "owed" to the Red Army in March this year, more than 100 40-mm Bofors antiaircraft guns alone were "sent." Due to the urgency of time, many of these antiaircraft guns were active equipment that had been appropriated from the army.

All the existing anti-aircraft guns on the Pinghai will be replaced with Bofors anti-aircraft guns, including the two 76-mm high-level dual-purpose guns that Lin Han thinks are of little use. Lin Han learned from intelligence that the Japanese had even sent the aircraft carriers Chicheng and Fengxiang to China this time, and he believed that as the war continued, the Kaga aircraft carriers would also be dispatched. Not to mention the possibility that the British side will also send aircraft carriers. Being slapped in the face by the Red Army in Shanghai, and sweeping away the wealth stored in the Far Eastern Bank, it is no wonder that Britain is not mad now.

In the past two years, with the help of the Soviet Union and Germany, together with the artillery uprising pilots, the Red Army now has more than 500 air force aircraft. More than half of them are fighters. In addition, 150 FW90C fighter jets, which arrived from Germany just last month, are in a state of non-assembly. As for pilots, both the Soviet Union and Germany have sent pilots to China in the name of the "Comintern." This group of planes and pilots did not participate in the war in the early stage for reasons of secrecy.

Although the FW90 fighter was designed by Dr. Tan Ke, it also absorbed some of the design ideas of the Soviet I16 fighter. After the Kiel secret talks in 1934, relations between the Soviet Union and Germany quickly warmed up, and the two sides also carried out many technical exchanges in the field of air force. The FW90 is also the world's first monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear. In the future air battle in Shanghai, it will give a "surprise" to Britain and Japan, which are still in the era of biplanes.

The Sephiroth parked on the Yangtze River is now being salvaged. The combined British and Japanese fleets sank a total of eight ships on the Yangtze River (the Kanpur was stranded). Although the Red Army is now "rich", it will soon face a total blockade and war by the imperialist countries, and it is too wasteful for the shells and cannons from these sunken ships to be soaked in the river in vain, and the Red Army today has the ability to repair these artillery and shells. From two o'clock in the morning, Lin Han put the statue back behind the main body. He drove the Sephiroth to the Yangtze River, and took advantage of the characteristics of his heroic body suitable for diving, and first went to the shipwreck of the Seta for salvage.

In addition to salvaging the two 76mm/40x guns and flooded shells from the sunken ship, Lin Han also looked for the ship's code book and cipher machine. It's a pity that when the ship was wrecked, Hasegawa Kiyoshi had already destroyed these things. However, Lin Han still fished a lockbox from the ship, and after Lin Han opened it on the Sephiroth, he found some confidential documents inside, which were handed over to the comrades of the Red Army to deal with.

The Third Fleet will arrive at the mouth of the Yangtze River as soon as this afternoon, so the whole day of the 15th. In order to rush for time. Li Huamei and Lin Hanlin were busy salvaging the usable materials from the sunken ship in the Yangtze River, and the most valuable equipment in the Yangtze River was a 152-mm naval gun on the Kanpur that was thrown into the river during the shelling. You can still put together two or three usable guns. And today's Red Army is not what it used to be. They also have the ability to repair these damaged guns.

The cruiser Kanpur ran aground in the shallow waters of Changxing Island. Now it's time for the rescue. After yesterday's battle of the Yangtze River, the Red Army captured the 5,000-ton British warship and then began the process of rescuing him with all its might. The Yangtze River is about to enter the rainy season. As long as the warship can float, he can at least go deep into Wuhan with the water level of the Yangtze River (historically American 10,000-ton ships have reached Wuhan). For the nascent Red Navy, the Kanpur was a precious trophy.

In order to rescue this warship, yesterday two small oil tankers with empty tankers leaned next to the warship, first drained 70 percent of the heavy oil in the ship to reduce the weight of the ship's hull, plugged several holes in the waterline of the ship's hull, and then transferred several pumping machines to start pumping water.

At the same time, technicians from Germany also entered the power room of the Kanpur to repair the damaged power system, and after more than 10 hours of hard work, two-thirds of the ship's power was finally restored on the morning of 15 July. The ammunition depot was then emptied of shells, and after weight reduction, the Kanpur finally resurfaced on the river.

Then, the warship, whose superstructure was battered to pieces, honked its horn three times amid the cheers of countless people, and sailed to the Xiaguan Wharf in Nanjing, upstream. In fact, the best place for the Kanpur should be the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, but Shanghai is about to become a battlefield, so he can only temporarily enter the Nanjing Xiaguan Wharf to dock for simple repairs. It was planned that the Kanpur would tear down most of the damaged superstructure and remove all of its guns for further weight reduction. As for the fate of this captured warship, the Red Army did not know what to do for the time being.

During the shelling, the Kanpur abandoned the anchor, and while Lin Han and Li Huamei were chatting, the Sephiroth was anchored at the place where the iron anchor sank for salvage operations. The two had just found the anchor and finished their underwater operation. The diesel engines of the salvage ship docked next to the Sephiroth sounded "empty", the crane boom on the salvage ship creaked, and the large iron anchor weighing dozens of tons sunk in the silt at the bottom of the river was breaking away from the bottom of the water little by little.

According to the relocation plan formulated by the Red Army, the equipment of the Jiangnan Shipyard in Haijiang will also be relocated to Nanjing in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River as far as possible, and the site of the new factory is expected to be set in Nanjing.

This kind of large-scale relocation has hurt China's fragile industry no less. But there was no way around it, Shanghai would soon become a battlefield, and the factories that were too close to the sea were completely within the range of the guns of the British and Japanese battleships, and the current Red Army was not sure that it would be able to protect the safety of these factories and facilities.

The Red Army entered Shanghai yesterday and took the concession today, and on the same day it began to carry supplies and demolish factories; this behavior undoubtedly caused a lot of panic and rumors in Greater Shanghai, and people with ulterior motives were making trouble and stirring up in it.

However, in extraordinary times, the Red Army, which had anticipated this situation, began a great trial and a great crackdown at 10 o'clock in the morning of 15 June.

The list of murderers was prepared by Li Huamei long before entering Shanghai.

Huang Jinrong, Du Yuesheng, these well-known gangsters in Shanghai and a bunch of underworld elements under the great anger of the people in Shanghai, as well as the owners of the women's branch and the owners of the Tooth Bird Film Restaurant, and the Japanese profiteers who had already registered on Li Huamei's blacklist, they were collectively executed after they were tried in the famous racecourse in Shanghai, and after the whole city was paraded through the streets, the first batch of people killed were all such underworld elements, and the total number was as high as 400 people. The Red Army entered Shanghai and the concession so fast that the imperialist capitalists did not have time to withdraw the stolen goods they had put in the Shanghai bank, and most of these Black Five elements did not have time to escape. After the Red Army took the whole of Shanghai and the concession, it immediately began to search for the whole city.

With Li Huamei's character, Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng have been able to live until now without being sniped into minced meat by her early, just for the "need" of this moment.

After the Red Army entered Shanghai, in addition to making preparations for the war, another thing was to mobilize the masses to carry out a campaign to expose the gangsters, complain about their grievances, and expose the gangsters. Under the report of the people of Shanghai, a large number of criminal syndicates and evil elements who had gone into hiding were uncovered one after another.

The place where the execution was carried out was precisely the entrance of the Shanghai Longhua Garrison Command. When the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup d'état took place seven years ago, all sorts of prominent leftists filled the cells and then shot hundreds of them. Under the White Terror of the Kuomintang, many people were captured here every year and then executed without any trial.

But this time, in the same place, the situation was reversed.

And these were just the first people to be shot! (To be continued......)