On the train to San Francisco, Hu Shi opened his mouth to explain to Chen Qiang the purpose of his visit to Los Angeles.

"You know about Dean Wang's defection, now he has become a traitor and serves the Japanese, and the information we have obtained so far is that the Japanese plan to let President Wang set up another traitor government in Nanjing." Hu Shi said.

"I've heard a little about that. Unexpectedly, Dean Wang looks dignified on the outside, but in fact he is a traitor. Chen Qiang said.

Even if Chen Qiang is a novice in history, he knows that Dean Wang is a heinous traitor, but at this time, he can only follow Hu Shi's words.

Hu Shi continued; "Previously, the Japanese had already set up a traitor government in North China, and now the Japanese plan to set up another traitor government in Nanjing, so they naturally hope to find more well-known Chinese people to serve them in official positions. Those dignitaries in Chongqing were determined not to be bought by the Japanese, so the Japanese set their sights overseas, especially in Hong Kong and the United States, and the Japanese hoped to persuade prominent people living in Hong Kong and the United States to work for them. ”

According to the telegram sent from Chongqing, the first target of the Japanese in the United States was Mr. Zhang Wochan, and they intended to ask Mr. Zhang to return to China and serve in the traitor government. It is said that the traitor sent by Dean Wang to convince Mr. Zhang to work for the Japanese is already on his way. So I rushed to Los Angeles to stop it. ”

"It's just that I wasn't lucky, and Mr. Zhang went to San Francisco to see his daughter and son-in-law, and he planned to spend the New Year there. It just so happened that the people in Chinatown told me that you are in Los Angeles right now, so I will simply take you with me to meet that Mr. Zhang. You're a bit famous, and I know you're a kid with a lot of ideas, and your head is much more flexible than mine, so it's easy to take one more person. ”

As soon as Hu Shi introduced this, Chen Qiang suddenly understood.

It was almost 1940, and Wang's puppet government was about to be established, and at this time, the Japanese were helping President Wang to build his grass platform team. Celebrities in China, as well as former government officials, are naturally the targets of Wang's puppet government. Mr. Zhang Wochan, who is in the United States, is an important target for them.

This Mr. Zhang Wochan is a veteran figure of the League, he was born in the family of the silk giant in the south of the Yangtze River, in his hometown there is a proverb of "four elephants and eight cows, seventy-two little golden dogs", which is a metaphor for the local rich people, and the disparity in size of elephants, cows, and dogs is also a metaphor for the wealth of the rich, among which the family wealth of more than one million taels can be called "dogs", and the family assets of more than five million taels are called "cows", and "elephants", the family assets are more than 10 million. Mr. Zhang's family and Mr. Zhang's grandfather's family are the "two elephants" of the "four elephants".

During the Guangxu period, Mr. Zhang served as a counselor of the embassy in France, met Mr. Zhongshan in Europe, and provided Mr. Zhongshan with 30,000 taels of funds, and later at the beginning of the establishment of the League, it was also Mr. Zhang who provided a lot of funds, and then the Republic of China was established, and the Nanjing Provisional Government had no money, or this Mr. Zhang Wochan took the lead in donating a huge amount of money, and the Nanjing Provisional Government could continue. It can be said that he is Mr. Nakayama's "God of Wealth".

When Mr. Zhongshan made a will, the first person to sign was Zhang Wochan, which shows the high status of Zhang Wochan. In addition, Zhang Wochan is also the oath keeper of the big boss in Chongqing, so the relationship between the two is also extraordinary. When Zhang Wochan died in the fifties, the big boss also wrote a euphemism on the mourning hall "Sorry for the loss of the mentor". You must know that with the status of the big boss at that time, except for Mr. Nakayama, I am afraid that no one will be called a "mentor" by him.

At the end of the twenties, Zhang Wochan had a disagreement with the big boss, Zhang Wochan hoped to develop the domestic economic construction and make China strong as soon as possible, while the big boss was keen to fight the civil war. It was also because of this disagreement that Zhang Wochan was eventually excluded from Nanjing's political core.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Wochan no longer had a real job, he first took refuge in Hankou, then went to Switzerland through Hong Kong, and finally came to the United States, where he had been eating fasting and reciting Buddha to pass the time.

Zhang Wochan's identity as a "veteran" will naturally be targeted by the soon-to-be-established Wang puppet government, this figure called a "mentor" by the big boss, if he becomes an official of Wang's puppet government, it is conceivable that the blow to Chongqing will be conceivable, and those traitors will do everything possible to persuade Mr. Zhang to work for him. It is also because Zhang Wochan's identity is too important that Hu Shi, as the ambassador to the United States, personally came to Los Angeles from New York.

After Hu Shi explained his intention to go to San Francisco, he asked: "I said Chen Qiang, why do you have the spare time to come to Los Angeles?" This is coming from New York, and it takes a lot of time to go back and forth, without having to look at your gym? ”

"I'm coming back for Christmas with my girlfriend, who is from Los Angeles." Chen Qiang said.

"It's the foreign woman I saw last time, right? Yes, you kid is quite capable, and he hooked up with a foreigner beauty. Hu Shi said with a long sigh, and then said: "It's a pity, foreigners are religious, and their marriages are presided over by priests, otherwise, when you get married, I can officiate your wedding." ”

Chen Qiang smiled dumbly, he had long heard that Hu Shi was the "No. 1 matchmaker of the Republic of China", he liked to introduce people the most, and he especially liked to preside over weddings, and now it seems that this is really the case.

……

Chen Qiang and Hu Shi came to Los Angeles together and met Mr. Zhang Wochan. Hu Shi informed Mr. Zhang of his intentions.

Mr. Zhang immediately said that no matter how old and foolish he was, he would not be a traitor and become a sinner of the nation.

Later, Hu Shi took Chen Qiang to visit several well-known overseas Chinese in San Francisco and explained the benefits and disadvantages. This can be regarded as communicating with them in advance, lest there really be well-known Chinese who will be deceived by Wang's puppet government to become traitors.

When Chen Qiang returned to New York with Esther, it was January 1940.

At this time, Europe was shrouded in war clouds, and on the German side, although the army had not yet moved, the entire German industry had entered a state of war, and almost the entire German industrial system had entered the control of the German government. To some extent, this is already a kind of planned economy.

The British were not far behind, restarting the rationing system in January 1940.

In World War I, Germany implemented an unlimited submarine battle plan, which led to the sinking of many supplies destined for Britain in the middle of the war, so Britain implemented a rationing system in 1917, but because the British mainland did not receive a blow in World War I, this rationing system ended quickly.

However, the British rationing system in 1940 was implemented until 1950, that is, five years after the end of the war, and Britain was still rationing, until the Marshall Plan worked and the European economy returned to the pre-war level, and Britain abolished the rationing system.

For more than 100 years, Britain has expanded its colonies around the world, and the British have become accustomed to continuously transporting the resources of the colonies to the British mainland to supply the British for consumption, which has reduced the production capacity of the British mainland, before the outbreak of the war in 1939, Britain imports 20 million tons of food alone every year, of which 70% of cheese and sugar, 80% of fruits, 70% of cereals, and 70% of meat need to rely on imports. In other words, without the blood transfusion of the colonies to Britain, the British would not even be able to eat.

In fact, as early as September 1939, the British began to ration gasoline, and in January 1940, bacon, butter, and sugar were also rationed, and soon other meats, cereals, cheeses, taboos, milk, dried fruits, etc. were also rationed. By 1942, almost all food items were being rationed, except for bread.

However, after all, Britain is rich in money, and even if it is food rationing, the food quota per person per day is still quite large. According to the minimum standard of the British rationing system, each person still had 4 ounces of bacon and ham, 8 ounces of sugar, 2 ounces of tea, 1 ounce of cheese, and 2 ounces of butter per day. In addition to this, there are 8 ounces of preserves and 8 ounces of candy each month. This 1 ounce is equivalent to 28 grams, and 4 ounces of ham is more than two taels, and there may not be two taels of meat in a boxed lunch.

The British introduced a rationing system, which also allowed American merchants to make a lot of money in Berlin. The United States has always been one of the world's leading agricultural producers, and its agricultural products are in a state of overproduction every year.

Originally, everyone thought that the first to profit from the war in Europe would be the industry of the United States, but they did not expect that Britain, France and Germany had declared war for several months, but the war had not started, and there was not much consumption of industrial products, but food began to be rationed first.

Merchants began to ship grain to Britain, which made the price of grain in the United States also began to increase, but fortunately, in this era, the American economy was good, and the Americans were very wealthy, and the slight increase in food prices did not affect the lives of Americans.

Domestically, since the end of the First Battle of Changsha, the Japanese have not made any major moves for the time being, and at this time Japan has obviously begun to change its strategy toward China, and they have begun to vigorously support agents in China and adopt the strategy of "using China to contain China."

On January 21, 1940, an article appeared in Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" introducing the negotiation process and main contents of the Japan-Wang secret treaty, which was the so-called "Gao Tao incident", and many Chinese also realized the essence of Wang's fake traitor.

On January 24, Wang Puppet held talks with the traitor leaders in Inner Mongolia, North China, and Huazhong in Qingdao, and thus several major traitor forces in China reached a formal unification. The "return of Nanjing" planned by the Japanese is also ready to fly.

Under such circumstances, Wang's puppet traitors also began to speed up the recruitment of talents to serve the traitorous government that was about to be established.

For this reason, Hu Shi sent a letter to Chen Qiang, the general content of the letter was that according to the information sent back from Chongqing, the Japanese had sent traitors to the United States, the purpose was to recruit talents from overseas Chinese in the United States, as well as overseas Chinese in the United States, as well as students studying in the United States, to return to Nanjing to join Wang's puppet government.

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As soon as Chen Qiang came back from outside, one of his fitness instructors greeted him.

"Coach Chen, someone outside is looking for you, it's a Chinese, I think maybe it's someone you know, so let him wait in the rest area first."

"Oh, then I'll be right over." After Chen Qiang finished speaking, he walked to the rest area, and sure enough, he saw a Chinese man in his thirties sitting there.

However, Chen Qiang has never seen this person, so he doesn't know who he is.

"Hello, I'm Chen Qiang, are you looking for me?" Chen Qiang said directly.

"General Chen, hello, contemptible Cao Yuebo." The other party introduced himself.

"It turned out to be Mr. Cao, I don't think Mr. Cao is here for fitness, I don't know what Mr. Cao is looking for me?" Chen Qiang asked bluntly.

Cao Yuebo said with a smile on her face: "The contemptible person is the representative of the Preparatory Committee of the Nanjing New Government in New York. ”

"The new government in Nanjing? Preparatory Committee? Chen Qiang was slightly stunned, and then immediately understood that this so-called "Nanjing New Government" is not the puppet government of Wang that is about to be established, that is to say, the Cao Yuebo in front of him must be a traitor of Wang's puppet!

Realizing this, Chen Qiang's face suddenly became gloomy.

Cao Yuebo didn't notice the change in Chen Qiang's expression, he continued: "I am here this time on behalf of the Preparatory Committee of the new Nanjing government, and invite Chen Jian to return to Nanjing, our new Nanjing government intends to set up a sports department under the Ministry of Education, and we would like to ask Chen Jian to serve as the director of the sports department of the new government!" ”

"Director, what a big official!" Chen Qiang snorted coldly, but his expression was full of banter.

Chen Qiang didn't expect that as soon as he received Hu Shi's telegram on the front foot, the puppet traitor on the back foot would come to woo him.

But Chen Qiang thought about it, this is not an unusual thing. In terms of political status, Chen Qiang's status may not be as good as that bigwig-level Mr. Zhang, but in terms of international influence, Chen Qiang is better. Therefore, it is normal for Chen Qiang to become the target of Wang's puppet traitors. Therefore, Wang Pseudo took out a position of director and smashed it on Chen Qiang's head.

I have to say that Wang's puppet traitors came to the United States to recruit people This trick is also ruthless enough, under the banner of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and then give high-ranking officials generous favors, and trick those Chinese in the United States who are not infatuated to work for them, plus that President Wang was originally the No. 2 person in China, many Chinese in the United States do not know the truth, do not know that the so-called new government in Nanjing is nothing more than a puppet regime carried out by the Japanese, and think that this is the government of the Chinese, but as a result, they were inexplicably deceived to Nanjing and became traitors.

"Before this Cao Yuebo came to me, I don't know how many Chinese he had deceived. Especially those students studying in the United States, they are all Chinese elites, even if one person is deceived back to Nanjing to be a traitor, it is a loss for China! It would be nice if I could stop this Cao Yuebo. ”

At this moment, Chen Qiang suddenly thought about it.

"It might be a bit dangerous, but maybe you can really try it."

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