Xu Shijiu's words of misfortune were quickly verified. When she walked out of the side door of the Chinachem Hotel, Wang Chonghui felt that the sky in Shanghai was particularly gloomy.

As of today, the battle of Songhu has lasted for a month and a half, and the war in North China has lasted for nearly three months, and the war will not only consume the armies of both sides, but also consume a large amount of national and financial resources of both sides, and the military expenditure of the national government has been high since its establishment, and now it is about to set a record: the expenditure will reach four times the revenue!

Affected by the all-out war between China and Japan, the fiscal revenue of the Republic of China in the 26th year (1937) will not be more than last year, it will only be less, and it will be 800 million yuan of legal currency, but the fiscal expenditure has exceeded 2.5 billion yuan of legal currency, and it is only September now, and there is no suspense that the final expenditure will exceed 3.2 billion yuan of legal currency.

The fiscal deficit is so high that it is useless to throttle expenditure, and it can only be open source, crazy open source!

In less than half a year, the supply of fiat currency surged several times, and the domestic financial order did not respond for the time being, and the price of food only rose slightly, but the exchange rate of silver dollars to fiat currency on the black market was falling rapidly, and it was one price a day.

The comprador class proved to be unreliable.

By September, Shanghai's compradors and petty traders had begun to refuse to accept fiat currency, and in order to stabilize the financial order that was about to collapse, the Nationalist government could only ask foreign merchants from various countries for help.

No, Wang Chonghui, the foreign minister, was sent to Shanghai as a lobbyist, and he had just returned from a British trading company, and Wang Chonghui wanted to persuade the British company to guarantee the Nationalist Government and persuade its compradors to continue to accept the Nationalist Government's fiat currency, but he failed to do so.

On the surface, the foreign devil was also polite, and when it came to the Japanese invasion of China, he looked even more indignant, but when it came to the actual problem, it was immediately revealed, in short, unless the national government paid the British pound, franc or US dollars, of course, it was possible to consider using silver dollars for settlement, and they could not help with fiat currency.

Thinking that although he brought hundreds of millions of yuan in fiat currency this time, he was stunned that he couldn't buy a box of medicines, a weapon or even a bag of flour from Shanghai, Wang Chonghui couldn't help but sigh a long sigh, this shijie has always been the meat of the weak and the food of the strong, and the Western powers have no good things, weak countries have no diplomacy, and weak countries have no diplomacy.

When Wang Chonghui was sighing, the secretary suddenly pointed ahead and shouted, "Mr. Wang, look at it." ”

When Wang Chonghui looked up, he saw that many people had gathered in the square in front of the main entrance of the Chinachem Hotel, and there were thousands of people in the dark, and several young people who looked like students were standing on the steps and shouting: "Compatriots, the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders have already crushed the four northeastern provinces and the five northern Chinese provinces, and now they are extending their claws to East China." Countless soldiers of the national army are fighting bloody battles on the front line, but do you know? While fighting to the death against the Japanese invaders, the soldiers of the national army are still enduring hunger and pain! Because of the shortage of military food, the officers and men of the national army can only drink two bowls of porridge every day, and it is a bright porridge, so they can only fight with the Japanese invaders with bayonets hungry! Because of the lack of medicine, a large number of wounded could not be treated in time, they could have survived, could have stepped on the battlefield again to give the Japanese a fatal blow, but now, they died quietly because of the lack of medicine, compatriots, as a descendant of Yan and Huang, shouldn't we do something? The Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous time, don't be indifferent anymore, don't be a bystander, donate generously, let us go to the national disaster together, help the government raise enough money, buy guns and ammunition, and medicine, China wants to continue the war of resistance, and it is inseparable from the concerted efforts of the compatriots across the country, compatriots ......"

On the steps, the speaker burst into tears, and at the bottom of the steps, the listeners wept when they listened, and many citizens took out the corner tickets in their hands and put them into the donation box without hesitation, including the elderly, children, decent people in suits and leather shoes, decent people, dock workers in ragged clothes and beards, and even beggars.

Looking at this scene, the corners of Wang Chonghui's eyes couldn't help but moisten, he saw with his own eyes a gray-haired grandmother put two corner tickets into the donation box, and then carried the empty basket and walked back to a small alley not far away with the little grandson, the little grandson turned back while walking, the focus of his eyes was a twist stall, and when he walked to the mouth of the alley, the little grandson refused to go back, the old grandmother hugged the little grandson's face, shed tears, and didn't know what to say, the little grandson nodded as if he didn't understand, and finally disappeared into the depths of the alley with his grandmother.

There was also a young man with parted hair and a suit and leather shoes, Wang Chonghui saw him put a bulging envelope into the donation box, this young man should be the professional manager of foreign silver, it should be the salary he just received this month, but he did not hesitate to donate it all.

A moment later, the young man walked by with a little boy in his hands, and the little boy was tearful and cried and said to the young man, "Dad, I want a Mickey Mouse toy."

The young man said, "Daddy, come home and make you a little wooden gun, you have practiced marksmanship and will fight Japanese devils when you grow up, and the little boy will turn his sorrow into joy."

After a while, the little boy asked again, "Dad, you donated your salary, so what are we going to eat this month?"

The young man smiled and said to the little boy, "Don't be afraid, Dad will go to the dock to carry the big bag."

The little boy said, "Daddy, I'll go with you too."

The young man laughed again, and said to the little boy, "Then you have to grow up quickly."

The father and son had already gone far, and the secretary sighed and said, "It's all fiat currency, what's the use." ”

"Yes, of course it works."

Wang Chonghui could no longer hold back his tears, he was almost sixty years old, but he cried like a child, choked up and said, "They donate not only fiat currency, but also hope, now I believe that no matter how bitter, no matter how difficult, the War of Resistance will continue, and little Japan will never want to conquer China." ”

#####老娘舅受伤了, he saved the engineer Lin Zihan at the moment of life and death, but he caught up with himself.

In fact, this is very normal, at least on the Songhu battlefield is a commonplace thing, every day thousands of soldiers of the national army die under the bombing of the Japanese army, the old lady is just one of them.

But for the Nineteenth Brigade, this is definitely a big deal.

The old lady's uncle is a veteran leader, he served in the army during the Beiyang period, and has rich battlefield experience that other veterans do not have, and he taught the officers and men of the 19th Brigade the skills of dodging artillery and machine guns, and the skills of relieving psychological pressure, which greatly improved the battlefield survivability of the officers and men of the 19th Brigade.

On the surface, no one has ever mentioned it, but in private, the officers and soldiers of the 19th Brigade actually regard the old lady as their elders, including the hundreds of soldiers who have just been added to the 19th Brigade, and they have also received the same meticulous care and earnest teachings from the old lady.

Ergua and Gao Shenxing carried the stretcher all the way, but Xu Shijiu was still urging, hurry up, hurry up.

Everyone understands Xu Shijiu's mood at this time, the captain has been an orphan since he was nine years old, it can be said that the old lady raised him, after the old chief Huang Hanting died in the temple lane, the old lady uncle became the only relative on the captain's shijie, once the old lady uncle has a good one, the captain will have no relatives.

Don't look at the captain who is usually as strong as a piece of steel, but he is also a human being.

Lin Zihan ran all the way to follow the stretcher, crying into tears, guilt was like a poisonous weed growing in his heart, if it wasn't for his whimsical idea to pick up the duds dropped by the Japanese bombers, how could the old lady be seriously injured?

At this time, Lin Zihan would rather be himself lying on the stretcher.

Ergua and Gao Shenxing were tired, Xu Shijiu and Lin Zihan took the stretcher and continued to rush forward.

Suddenly there was the roar of an airplane engine in the sky, and more than a dozen Japanese bombers came out of the clouds, and then swooped down towards the stretcher team transporting the wounded on the Hutai Highway.

Such scenes are staged almost every day and all the time, and the Japanese bombers taking off from Yangshupu Airport and Pudong Airport will certainly rush to the rear to harass them after dropping bombs on the forward positions, and the trains on the railway line, the convoys on the highways, and the stretcher teams are all their targets.

Since mid-September, the air defense of the Nationalist army has basically been completely lost under the wanton and indiscriminate bombing of the Japanese army, so the dive of the Japanese bombers is very fearless, and its flight altitude has even dropped to the extent that the bayonets of the Nationalist army can poke it, and the reduction of the flight altitude has of course brought about a great improvement in the accuracy of shooting.

After two waves of dives, the highway was already full of wounded stretcher team members, improvised stretchers were thrown everywhere, and many wounded soldiers of the national army rolled to the ground, struggling and wailing for help.

Xu 19 knew that the bombers of Little Japan would definitely chase the dense crowd, so he and Li Zihan fled into the open field on the left side of the road with a stretcher, instead of following the group of people to avoid the bamboo forest on the right, as a result, the bombers of Little Japan really ignored Xu 19 and these people, and dived into the bamboo forest for a few waves before turning around and flying away.

After the end of the air raid, the stretcher teams hidden in the bamboo forests and cotton fields came out one after another, and the cries on both sides of the highway became a loud sound, most of these stretcher teams were spontaneously organized Shanghai citizens and nearby people, and most of them were women.

However, these women cried and cried, sad and sad, but the work in their hands did not stop, they quickly re-lifted the stretcher from the ground, carried the wounded to the rear of the wounded transfer place, a female student with short hair ran back and forth in the crowd, while inspiring the stretcher team: sisters, we can't go to the battlefield, but we can help transport the wounded, we can't let them become Zuihou's national army, let alone let them become Zuihou's heroes.