At the end of the 20th year of the new Qin Dynasty, China at the end of 1896 was a time of great joy among the officials and the people. On December 12 of the lunar calendar, a turning point and a milestone day in the long history of the world, China signed the "Washington Treaty" with the United States and the "Columbia Convention" with France, Spain, and the Netherlands. The Chinese North American Expeditionary Force withdrew from Washington and Columbia and retreated the army back a hundred kilometers, cutting off Alaska in the United States, and two hundred million pounds! Swapped the Vancouver area for the UK.

These two treaties are historically known as the "Double 12 Peace Treaty" and are recognized as historical turning points by scholars of world history in the East and the West. It was on this day that Europeans lost the crown of the world that had held in their hands for hundreds of years. Although China is only wearing half of the crown symbolizing the world hegemon on its head at the moment, the world situation of being strong in the west and weak in the east has been completely reversed!

The world has changed from the dominance of the white race in the West to the confrontation between the yellow and white races in the East and the West. Only the black people of Africa and the brown people of South America still maintain their former place in the world.

The news was transmitted back to China on the same day, and immediately caused a sensation and cheers throughout the country. After two years of the North American War, the Chinese people persisted in the entire war for two and a half years and finally won a complete victory.

China's iron fist hit the behemoth of Tsarist Russia, stepping on the United States, the world's first industrial power, and moving to the top of the world side by side with the British. The Chinese Army, like the Navy of the British Empire, has an invincible reputation all over the world!

The Celestial Empire, the current China is the Celestial Empire of the past!

Countless people cried and got drunk on this day. Drunk and crying. They don't need to drink, they just savor the humiliation that China suffered fifty-six years ago. As long as you taste the power of today's China, people will be drunk.

Two and a half years. A total of 460 billion yuan of China's war bonds were sold, of which more than 440 billion yuan was raised domestically. The per capita contribution of 700 Chinese yuan can be said to have hollowed out all the savings of the people of the entire country. It was hundreds of millions of people across the country who lifted China and the army with their own hands and walked to the throne of victory. Without their sacrifices and dedication, relying only on the accumulation of the national treasury, it would have been impossible to fight this two-and-a-half-year war to the last moment.

Liu Xian is sincerely grateful to everyone, to the people who have emptied the last penny in their pockets, and to the workers and masters who work overtime day and night. Even those immigrants who did not spend all their money to buy war bonds, but instead took out bank loans to repay the land they had cleared. This war is the dedication of every countryman.

In the first year of the war, a total of 70 billion yuan of war bonds were sold, of which 80 percent were allocated in units of '100,000 yuan' and 15 percent in units of '10,000 yuan'. What does this mean? This shows that this year's war bonds were mainly purchased by the top classes of society, such as big businessmen, big capitalists, own families, and big bureaucrats. The power of the small people at the bottom accounts for only a small part of it.

But in the third year, that is, this year. The amount of war bonds allocated in units of '10,000 yuan' is only more than 2,700 billion yuan. It only accounts for 58.7% of the total amount. In other words, the contribution of the small people of society is no less than that of these vested interests of society, the top, upper and middle classes of society, and even much more. If we divide this 58.7% into millions of yuan, 100,000 yuan, and 10,000 yuan.

Therefore, this war is a victory for all the people of China. It is the real one who wants the same thing and wins!

And because of this. As the New Year approaches, the whole of China becomes more and more joyful.

Shanghai is China's largest port, and the two-year war against North America has greatly strengthened its position. Tianjin in the north. Guangzhou and Hong Kong in the south can no longer be overcome.

Goods from all over the country are gathered here. Every move here can involve half of China's breath.

On the sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, it has been three or four days since the "Double Twelfth Peace Treaty" came. The atmosphere in Shanghai not only did not fall, but became more and more high.

The streets and alleys are lit up, and goods and food from all over the country are piled up in the market. Zhang Fagen looked at the abundant substances on the market in surprise, the roaring bacon is his family's favorite food, every time he makes bacon rice, his three children can eat three bowls of rice one by one. There is also the bright red and emerald green cotton cloth, the color is so bright that people can't take their eyes off it, and he really wants to pull three feet from his wife. There are also dark wool and silk cotton, and my parents are over half a hundred years old, and they have never been able to wear decent clothes once. But touching the money in his pocket, Zhang Fagen moved, even though the items on both sides of the market attracted his attention and footsteps like magnets, Zhang Fagen didn't step forward to ask.

Let's go to the labor supermarket! That's the cheapest thing. He saved three months' purchase vouchers, and he was able to buy 300 yuan of things in the supermarket, and this year has passed. While walking, Zhang Fagen imagined that when the Chinese New Year next year, no, there is no need to wait until next year, that is, in the two months after the New Year, his family will be able to ease up. He is an intermediate fitter in Jiangnan Shipyard, and he gets a lot of money every month, and two months is enough time for his family to relieve.

There is a branch of Huaxia Bank next to the labor supermarket on Qingshan Road, and Zhang Fagen, who is still wearing work clothes, walks to Huang Afa's counter with a familiar car, this person's name is Ah Fa, and Zhang Fagen is also called Ah Fa, so when he bought war bonds for more than two years, he has been buying them at Huang Afa's counter. Although Huang Afa didn't know what the reason was, he was also familiar with Zhang Fagen, a person who would come on the 16th of the month, the day after the monthly salary.

"Mr. Zhang, are you here to buy bonds again?"

"Three thousand. The old rules! ”

Zhang Fagen took out a notebook from his arms, which was his family's household registration book, which was a necessary document for purchasing war bonds, and there was a booklet in the household registration book, which was similar to a bankbook for storage, which was also an alternative passbook. Every war bond has a base to be left behind.

The booklet contains 5 sheets of 500 pieces of Chinese Dollar and 5 sheets of 100 pieces of Chinese Dollar.

Huang Ah Fa didn't take it, but pushed the household registration book back from the window. "Mr. Zhang, don't buy war bonds. The state has stopped the sale of war bonds. Take it back before this and have a good year! Huang Afa has great respect for the middle-aged worker master in front of him, and for more than two years, this master has come to buy war bonds every month, and the amount has never been less than 3,000 yuan. And he himself is not super rich with a lot of money, he wears shipyard overalls all the year round, a pair of shoes on his feet are tattered, and smoking is always the cheapest fort, the price is only one dollar. Such a person is not worthy of respect, and Huang Afa will not be able to find someone who can be respected.

is humble and does not dare to forget the country, Huang Afa absolutely in front of this Mr. Zhang is the best portrayal of Lu Fangweng's poem.

Zhang Fagen walked out of the bank point in a little dizzy, the street lights were already lit outside, the cold wind was blowing, and Zhang Fagen's dizzy mind was instantly clear. I was really dizzy, just looking at the sudden reduction of the work of the shipyard in the past few days, and the amount of overtime at night was greatly reduced, I should know that the situation has changed. On the thirteenth day, the state announced that it would stop selling war bonds. Because the war has been won!

It's time for me to raise my head and take a look at society. Zhang Fagen patted his head and decided to start subscribing to the newspaper from tomorrow and start to pick up this consumption, which had been interrupted for more than two years. At the beginning, he was working as a laborer at the Hong Kong wharf, and the workers' union changed his fate, allowing him to go to night school and learn culture. Later, because of his fast cultural learning, he was selected and promoted by the workers' union, and then completed the qualitative transformation from a coolie at the Hong Kong dock to an apprentice at the Guangzhou shipyard, and then because of his excellent skills, he was transferred to the Jiangnan Shipyard because of his excellent skills.

Zhang Fagen's current salary is more than 2,000 yuan a month, and if he counts overtime pay, he can get 2,500 yuan a month. This is definitely a high income level for the working class in China. Although this money was converted into dollars and pounds, in the United States and Britain in the past, it was simply impossible to feed a family. But in Shanghai, the most prosperous city in China, even if the price here is the highest level in the country, 2,500 yuan can make Zhang Fagen's family live a comfortable life.

But Zhang Fagen's neighbors all know that the life of this family is very simple, even stingy.

In the big city of Shanghai, Zhang Fagen's family of seven, two elderly people and three children, his wife also works in a textile factory, and he can earn 1,800 yuan a month, and Abba and Aunt can also earn a few hundred yuan by pasting matchboxes at home, with a total income of at least 4,000 yuan, but the total amount of all expenses each month does not exceed 500 yuan. In Zhang's family, meat can only be eaten on the first and fifteenth days of the month, and most of it is cheap fish. But every month after China's foreign war began, Zhang Fagen bought more than 3,000 war bonds at Huaxia Bank.

Zhang's family all supported Zhang Fagen. Because people know gratitude, Zhang Fagen's family can buy a house in Shanghai and live a comfortable life, relying on the country, it can be said that the emergence of the new Qin Dynasty and the emergence of new China have changed Zhang Fagen's fate and changed the fate of their family.

If it weren't for Emperor Liu, there would be no 'Former Workers' Association', a former secret organization that has been revealed to be 'secret', Zhang Fagen can't read and write, and will only work hard to sell coolies at the Hong Kong docks, and I don't know when an illness or an injury will take his life and destroy his home.

Zhang Fagen will not be sent to the Guangzhou shipyard as an apprentice, will not become an intermediate fitter, and will not come to the Jiangnan shipyard in Shanghai. Naturally, the entire Zhang family would not have the current life. His parents may have died long ago, and his children, even if they hadn't died, wouldn't have been educated sitting in a classroom with a bright window like they are now. Therefore, the entire Zhang family is grateful. (To be continued......)