Chapter 4 Migration
After the Nanjing Nationalist Government designated Chongqing as the accompanying capital, the status of one person began to be extremely prominent, and he was Chiang Ching-kuo, the son of Chiang Kai-shek.
It was he who laid a solid foundation for Chongqing, and groups of officials began to move to Chongqing. In the past, it was far away from the southwest, so I naturally didn't know the solidity of the road here.
After seeing the prosperity of Chongqing, many people think of another holy place in China, Chengdu. Since the fall of Shanghai, it has become the most prosperous place in China.
Moreover, Sichuan also undertook most of China's arms supply and material supply, and provided a large number of residential areas for the refugees in the occupied areas, all of which were under control and control.
Many government officials are very curious about Chengdu, so after moving the capital to Chongqing, many officials and masters went to Chengdu to inspect.
At first, they couldn't even enter the boundaries of Chengdu, they didn't have their own ID cards and household registration books, and they were almost arrested as spies.
There is no value for senior central officials to take out their work cards, and in the Southwest Special Administrative Region, everything is based on the value of the Southwest.
Of course, not everyone chose Chongqing, you must know that it was those officials who went to Chongqing, and they also brought the habits of Nanjing to Chongqing, which Jiang Weiguo could not stop.
But there are some people who choose to go to Chengdu, they are some excellent scholars, patriotic businessmen, some artists, and even some small capitalists.
Although the bureaucrats and chaebols are not welcome, they are still very welcome to those who are useful to the country and the anti-Japanese resistance.
Li Zhilong personally led the government officials of the Southwest Special Administrative Region to give a warm welcome to those who had moved to Chengdu.
They get their own apartments, the rich can pay in front of the house that year, and the poor can also pay annually, making it difficult for those who are homeless to live.
Chen Yun had already stockpiled a large amount of supplies, and with the arrival of these refugees in the southwest, the high prices were instantly calmed down, and the citizens did not even have time to complain.
Of course, Chiang Ching-kuo in Chongqing was not so prepared, so letters of help came to Chengdu, and Li Zhilong was not stingy, and plenty of small commodities were dumped throughout Chongqing. Let those national enterprises in Chengdu make a lot of money.
The people in the southeast of the country are all wealthy people in this great migration, and in their eyes, Chengdu should be poor and hungry in a place like Chengdu, which is constantly in war.
But when they entered Chengdu, they were greeted by neat buildings and clean roads, white-collar workers in clean and straight suits, hurriedly stepping off the tram, carrying briefcases to promote their products.
Is this Chengdu?
Everyone was prepared for the arduous journey, but what was it like to see a city that was even more prosperous than Nanjing and Shanghai.
The migrating students immediately found a new school address and a city-specific library. Every city has its own waste pickers.
Some of them may be covered with patches, but they are very clean, without a trace of peculiar smell, their faces are ruddy, and they sit quietly on the steps of the library to learn something, which is absolutely impossible in Nanjing. A city can be without money, but it must not be without a soul.
With the little money they had, the workers took to the streets, starving if they couldn't find work.
Hu Da, a junior mechanic at the Nanjing Machinery Factory, who, like many others, lost his job because during the migration their boss's machine was bombed by the Japanese, and they now have nothing.
Because Hu Da knew how to read, he became the leader of more than 100 workers, most of whom were workers in the machinery factory, and everyone discussed that as long as they couldn't find a job, they would go to the city government building to make trouble.
There were patrolmen on bicycles in every street, patrolmen with boxes on their bodies, and when they saw a large group of workers in blue clothes in Hulala, they stopped the cars and stopped them.
"Stop! You are not allowed to march unlawfully. At this time, Hu Dacai found that the leading patrol officer turned out to be a foreigner, but he spoke fluent Mandarin.
"Lao Hu, let's withdraw, this foreigner doesn't seem to be a good thing, look at his big head, the box cannon in his waist doesn't bully us, it's good." The three were not tall, wearing a white shirt, and looked at the blue-eyed patrolman with fear in his eyes.
He has seen a lot of this kind of patrol in Shanghai, but he doesn't know when Chengdu has become the territory of foreigners.
"Lao Luo, I'll come." A patrolman with clear eyebrows, flashed his police ID, stepped forward and said to Sanhanzi, "You don't have to be afraid, this comrade is also Chinese, his Chinese name is Luo Cheng, and he has an ID card and household registration book." I'm Wang Kai, a police officer in this area, and I'm also his assistant. ”
"Is this the book?" After speaking, the three gentlemen grinned thin lips, frowned and said, "The boss said that his factory was bankrupt, sorry brothers, so he gave us such a book, and such a card, saying that as long as we get to Chengdu, we can live a good life, but we have been shopping for a day, and I don't know what the use of this local currency is." ”
"Your boss must be a Madahar, and you can take this household registration book to the relief office not far from the city hall to receive a three-month relief fund and a temporary residence. If you can't say that you have a good life, it will definitely be much better than the life given to you by those capitalists in Nanjing. ”
"Don't insult our boss, after our boss went bankrupt, he gave all the money to you Chengdu people, what kind of security deposit should be made to let the brothers live a good life, why do you say our boss." Hu Da frowned at the thick eyebrows, if he wasn't afraid of that blue-eyed foreigner, he would definitely have to fight with that young man named Wang Kai.
"Wang Kai, how can you insult their boss? If you were in Germany, an angry employee would have torn you apart. Luo Cheng was tall and walked like a clumsy bear, but he had a gentle smile that was characteristic of Orientals.
He stepped forward and patted the three men on the shoulder, took out a map, and handed it to the three sons, he saw that the prestige of this three sons Su Ri'an was not as good as Hu Daqiang in this group, but he was indeed the most shrewd.
"This gentleman from afar, this is a map of Chengdu, no matter what the reason, you all need a job, through him you can successfully find the industrial zone, find a new job, remember to work hard, although some bosses are very generous to their employees, but they hate those who do not work seriously."
Although the third gentleman didn't know what a gentleman was, he could feel that this foreigner was different from those foreigners in Shanghai and Nanjing, so he nodded and said, "Thank you, thank you, I know that you are different from the foreigners I have seen." ”
"Hey, man, he's not a foreigner, he's Chinese, or call him a Chinese Jew." Wang Kai corrected with a smile.
Mr. Hu came up to express his gratitude, but Luo Cheng led his colleagues to ride their bicycles, waved his hand and said to Hu Da, "If you see a friend again, hurry up and find a job." We need to keep patrolling. ”
Looking at the departing patrolman, everyone was very puzzled.
"Three gentlemen, why does this foreigner speak so politely? I'll give you a copy of the map. Hu Da asked puzzled.
"I don't know this very well, probably their Jewish state is a small country." The three gentlemen waved their hands and said to Hu Da, "Let's hurry up and find a job, my wife and children are still hungry!" ”