"It's really full of public bones!"

Looking at the Red Army soldiers standing guard downstairs, the Consul General of the British Empire in Shanghai, Bran . Sir John Public Concession International Chamber of Commerce and Industry Director Arnold spoke in Chinese to the British ambassador to China, Judd.

Ambassador Judkan's nearly half-month negotiations in Wuhan completely failed, and he returned to Shanghai by plane yesterday. Although he had long known about the sudden changes in the situation in Shanghai, the current situation in the concession still gave Ambassador Judgan, who had been away from Shanghai for half a month, the illusion that he had "arrived in another world".

"Our history here is over!"

Judgan replied. He was also watching the street outside through the window of the consulate.

The streets were full of Red Army soldiers standing guard. The British consulate in Shanghai was cordoned off by the Red Army in the name of "protection", and a company of troops surrounded it. The situation at the French Consulate was similar here, and as for the Japanese Consulate, it is now in ruins, and the Japanese consul and the members of the Japanese board of directors of the International Chamber of Commerce, who had fled to the British Consulate during the Battle of the Japanese Concession, were also taken away yesterday by the Red Army who forcibly broke into the consulate on charges of espionage.

After the concession was taken, the Red Army that entered Shanghai had a different attitude towards foreigners from all over the country in the concession.

For the Americans, the Red Army had the best attitude, although it surrounded the consulate in the name of "protection", but the entry and exit of personnel was not strictly checked.

Britain and France, on the other hand, regarded them as mortal enemies and closely interrogated them, even going so far as to storm consulates in violation of international law to arrest people. British and French diplomats protested, but the Red Army forcefully rejected on the grounds that "diplomatic relations have not been established" and "spies have been captured".

As for the Japanese in the concession. Now all of them are confined by the Red Army and concentrated in special areas in the concession for centralized surveillance. According to the news from outside, Ambassador Judgan knew that the Red Army had arrested many Japanese on charges of espionage. Since the capture of Shanghai, one of the most important things for the Red Army has been to purge the spy and intelligence organizations of various countries that remain in China.

In order to have a deterrent effect, a large number of people on the "blacklist" are shot in the vicinity of the Longhua Garrison Headquarters and the British and French consulates after being paraded through the streets every day.

He is a Japanese director of the International Chamber of Commerce and an official of the Manchurian Iron Company. Except for a very small number of people who went into hiding. All the rest were arrested and interrogated.

"Those so-called business groups and clubs are simply the eyes and ears of Japan's invasion of China, and they are the vanguard of Japan's invasion of China! There they are. When the Japanese invaded Shanghai. I know Shanghai well. If possible. I even advocated that all the Japanese in the concession be killed - even if they could not do so, they must all be imprisoned and monitored, and those leaders and evildoers. It is even more necessary to suppress (crab) pressure directly unceremoniously! ”

Lin Han and Li Huamei, who came from later generations, showed the toughest attitude towards the Japanese in the concession.

In order to convince the upper echelons of the Red Army, Lin Han cited the practice of the Americans in building concentration camps in the United States to deal with Japanese overseas Chinese in the United States after the outbreak of the Pacific War. Moreover, knowing that the contradictions between China and Japan were impossible to reconcile between the enemy and ourselves, the Red Army also gave up any illusions about the Japanese, and they heeded Lin Han's advice, established a quarantine zone, and detained all Japanese overseas Chinese in the concession for temporary "surveillance" and residence.

At present, the Japanese in the Shanghai Ghetto were not able to communicate freely with the outside world at all, and all the supplies had to be rationed by the Red Army every day. And those Japanese who had long been blacklisted were all arrested.

The Red Army, for its part, did not intend to keep these Orientals or Westerners in prison for a long time, but only waited for their countries to send ships to evacuate overseas Chinese, and most of these people would be directly sent on ships and expelled from Shanghai.

With regard to Britain and Japan, the Red Army dealt with the "contradiction between the enemy and ourselves" and was relatively lenient with the Americans. Naturally, the assets of the Americans in China, sensitive resources such as mines, railways, and docks were unceremoniously recovered from the state. Banks, factories and other institutions are still in the first line, and they are in the stage of "negotiable".

Sir Bran and Ambassador Judgan looked at each other with a sad face, and after June, the British Empire suffered heavy losses in China. After the fall of the Nationalist government in Nanjing, all the money they had lent him in the past was reduced to ashes. In the past few years since the signing of the "Treaty of London," more than $100 million in arms loans have been provided to the Nationalist Government in Nanjing. As a result, due to the premature collapse of the Nanjing government, it is now all in vain. The mines, factories, railways, and even banks in China are all ruined, and all the losses add up, and Blanche hastily estimates that they are more than a billion dollars on the surface alone, not counting the loss of future revenues.

Today is the 17th, and the "Shanghai Daily" -- formerly known as "Ta Kung Pao" -- that was thrown on the table changed its name after the Red Army took Shanghai. The news on the front page of the newspaper was that yesterday morning there was a naval and air battle in the East China Sea, in which the "red bandits" claimed that they had sunk several Japanese warships and two passenger ships, and that the Japanese intervention forces from Taiwan had basically been wiped out.

The newspaper published a picture of the sunken steamer taken from the plane, and the picture was not very clear, but the information from the country that Blanche Tong Guò learned that the Japanese, who were scheduled to land in Shanghai yesterday, did not land in the vicinity of Shanghai on 16 June as planned.

As soon as the 16th passed, the foreigners in the concession, especially the British and Japanese expatriates, were now a little uneasy and desperate. Their despair did not arise primarily from the fear of "life", for the Red Army had openly declared that foreigners in the concession could leave at any time as long as they were not engaged in espionage and hostile activities, just waiting for the arrival of the ships that received them. Their real despair is bankruptcy.

Sir Bran never forgot the pale face of Arnold, the chief director of the International Chamber of Commerce, and the desperate eyes of the director of the HSBC branch in China. After the Red Army entered Shanghai, it sealed all the materials in the Shanghai warehouses and confiscated them, and seized all the warehouses and account books of the British Bank in China. Despite the British government's strong protests and threats of war, Sir Bran knew that no matter what the future war between China, Britain and Japan would be, these losses would be irreparable.

As the financial center of the Far East, Shanghai has long been regarded as a paradise for European and American adventurers to pan for gold and overnight propaganda, but within a few days it has become a nightmare for all adventurers and financial speculators. Financial institutions such as the Shanghai Stock Exchange were seized by the Red Army, and all deposit receipts and stubs were sealed. Now is not the thirties of the twentieth century, not the future era of interconnection, these stubs and odd numbers jù are manually recorded, and only remitted to the head office at the end of each month. The Red Army's actions undoubtedly condemned all these people's investment speculations to naught.

Sir Bran and Ambassador Judgan, the two could almost imagine the scene of countless bankrupt businessmen and speculators lining up to jump down the bridge over the Thames as the London stock market opens tomorrow Monday.

"Bang, pound!"

The sound of gunfire rang out briefly and then disappeared for a short time, and it was a scene of the Red Army's public execution of the black, evil, and traitorous elements in the concession, which would take place on time every day at ten o'clock in the vicinity of the British and French consulates, including many acquaintances of the knight and the ambassador in the past.

Sir Bran and Judgan attended a pre-execution public trial, and the great men who used to shake the sea when they stomped their feet were dragged to the stage like dead dogs, and were accused of their crimes by countless civilians at the lowest level, whom they despised the most. Public trial, criticism, street parade, and then shooting, this scene reminded the two of them of the fate of the old magnates after the French Revolution and the October Revolution.

In addition to gangsters, evildoers, and traitors, those who were executed also included a large number of financial speculators, usurers who forced people to die, former artillery party officials, and even a large number of Japanese spies caught in the public concession. The Red Army did not shoot them all at once, but deliberately carried out them in batches in order to achieve a long-term deterrent effect.

If it were 1949 in history, when the capitalist colonial system collapsed, when the Red Army entered Shanghai, it would still show a little mercy to these criminal and evil traitors, and carry out "labor education and ideological transformation" in line with the idea of "curing diseases and saving people", it would not be as fierce as it is today. But now it was 1935, which was the most frantic era of colonialism and reactionary forces in the world, and in addition to the influence that Lin Han "catalyzed" from it, and in order to "cut off the eyes of the imperialist countries, especially the Japanese in Shanghai", the Red Army was much tougher and more fierce in its methods.

In this process, Lin Han's statement was: "The so-called Manchurian Railway or the Japanese Zhushi Company or something, they are all spies planted by the Japanese in China!" In Shanghai, only dead Japanese are good Japanese! ”

The Red Army did not listen to Lin Han's fierce bigoted statements, but under his influence, they still regarded these Japanese expatriates as the "vanguard force" of the colonizers.

In addition, among those who were executed outside the consulate, in addition to Japanese spies, there were also many foreigners.

After the Red Army entered Shanghai, many foreigners, whether Oriental or Western, who had committed numerous crimes in Shanghai under the influence of the masses of the people, arrested all of them and gave them a "fair trial."

Looking at the awakened Chinese and the "old magnates" who were trampled under the feet of the "untouchables on the beach", the two have understood that some of the broken things can never come back. (To be continued......)

PS: The day before yesterday, the 131st chapter was written too fiercely, and I didn't have the heart to write anything until yesterday, my mind was blank, blank, and I didn't think of what to write until today. I'll write one chapter first, and then another chapter in the evening