At the end of December 1934, the citizens of Shanghai, who had just spent Christmas in the midst of explosions and mushroom clouds, ushered in a new round of shock and fright.

-- On the banks of the Huangpu River in the cold wind, on the bustling streets of the Bund in Shanghai, in the midst of countless onlookers, hundreds of celebrities in Shanghai who were shocked by the Red Army were transported out of the Songhu Garrison Headquarters by Red Army soldiers by trucks and hung on every street lamp on the Bund in the form of corpses!

Among these gentry and celebrities who were "hung with street lamps", there were gangsters such as Huang Jinrong and Zhang Xiaolin, as well as colonial officials such as Lao Nuode, the chief director of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau, but more were Yu Qiaqing, Qian Xinzhi, Wang Yiting, Wu Yunzhai, Li Fusun, Zhou Zuomin, Ma Yier, Liu Lishi, Yang Ningshi and other people in the financial investment circles of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang consortiums...... If the most eye-catching scenery of Shanghai Tang in the past was the row of bank buildings on the Bund, then another eye-catching new sight is the bankers hanging full of street lamps!

Then, in order to demonstrate the justice of this collective execution, on the street lamp pole hung by every Shanghai tycoon, the political workers of the Red Army also put up notices and stickers describing the crimes of their lives - speculation, hoarding, creating a stock market disaster, and bringing disaster to the country and the people...... As for the most serious crime, of course, it was the bribery of reactionary shili and the massacre of tens of thousands of revolutionary masses at the behest of the imperialist powers!

In short, these bankers are the most greedy and evil devils on Shijie, and their sins are unforgivable and innocent! Hanging street lights are cheap for them too!

Look at the banking colleagues who are hung with every street lamp on the Bund, and the wisps of black smoke from the Red Army burning books and banknotes in the major banks. Zhang Jiaxuan, the former general manager of the Bank of China, who is now entitled to the title of "Preparatory Consultant of the Shanghai Soviet Bank", is a little lucky to have escaped on the one hand, but also embarrassed on the other hand. “…… This is really 'Neiku burned for the splendid gray sky street to step on the bones of the princess'! ”

“…… Are you comparing the Red Army to a yellow nest? Professor Yang Wenli, who was standing beside him, glanced back at Zhang Jiaxuan, "...... So, I don't know who is Tang Xizong in Mr. Zhang's mind, and who is Tian Lingzi, Li Keyong and Zhu Wen? ”

- In general, for this man who was praised by later generations as "talented and self-exalted." Mr. Zhang Jiaxuan, the "father of China's modern bank", who was born in the end of the world, Professor Yang Wenli did not have much affection from the heart.

First of all, in the counter-revolutionary coup d'état of April 12 of that year. Zhang Jiaxuan also half-pushed and half-kicked on the spot, and his hands were also stained with the blood of revolutionaries.

Secondly, Zhang Jiaxuan graduated from Keio University in Japan and is politically pro-Japanese. And he is extremely enthusiastic about Japanese culture. Superstitious about the strength of the Japanese militarists, they even wore kimonos, clogs, and spoke fluent Japanese, which was completely oriental...... This is nothing in the 21st century, but in this year when the contradictions between China and Japan are extremely intensified and the tragic and heroic War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is about to break out, it is very eye-catching.

Fortunately, the travelers showed Zhang Jiaguang a lot of books and publications that exposed the shady scenes inside the Japanese army, such as "A Little History of Corruption in the Imperial Army of Japan", "Only the Second Disease Can Become a General" and so on. After asking former Prime Minister Kotori Yu Mahaku to stand up and depict and show him the style of Japan's "cute invaders" in the 21st century. Zhang Jiaxuan's superstition about the invincible imperial army of Great Japan was finally brought back to a certain extent.

Of course, no matter how you look at it, it is clear that the banker's ass has not yet sat on the side of the masses.

“…… No matter what kind of high-sounding banner you have, you have single-handedly destroyed the financial industry in Shanghai! Zhang Jiaxuan said.

“…… That's true, but we feel that Shanghai's financial industry should have been destroyed long ago – the last talent China needs today, except for the traitors leading the way, is the comprador bankers......" Professor Yang replied unceremoniously, "...... From a sociological point of view, the prosperity of Shanghai, the financial center of the Far East, is based on the blood and tears of the entire Chinese people; from an economic point of view, it is extremely deformed; criminal evils are rampant in society, and stock exchanges and other financial institutions lack the necessary regulatory system, making all kinds of speculation and speculation all the rage, speculators and brokers flood the financial circles, and one by one they want to make something out of nothing and get rich overnight, taking public bonds and real estate as the main investment objects, and creating one huge financial bubble after another. and unwilling to run the industry in a down-to-earth manner...... The prosperity of the whole of Shanghai is like a castle in the air, lacking an industrial foundation. In this case, the more you play financial magic, the more terrible the damage to China's economy will be, and the more tragic the disaster will be caused to the people after the future collapse! ”

“…… But with such wars and chaos in the country, customs control in the hands of foreign powers, and the government's inability to protect industry, what else can we do but engage in finance? Zhang Jiaxuan rubbed his forehead and sighed, "...... It's not like we haven't done it before, but the result is that we don't know how miserable it is! ”

“…… This is the difference between the thinking angle of your bourgeoisie and our proletariat, hiding under the wings of the imperialist powers and playing the economy according to their rules, the result can only be sheared over and over again - what good can you do in the financial industry if you flatter the foreigners, only consider the well-being of a very small number of rich people, but despise and trample on the interests of the vast majority of the poor? Professor Yang said.

“…… But that's not a reason for you to kill indiscriminately! Are all those people hanging on the street lamps really guilty? Zhang Jiaxuan screamed.

“…… Perhaps there are people who do not die for their crimes. Professor Yang nodded, "...... But as in the case of the French Revolution, Louis XVI and many of the French nobles who went to the guillotine may not have been beheaded, but the problem is that they are actually paying the debt for the centuries of brutal oppression and injustice inflicted on the people of Lebanese by their ancestors – the years have not been able to erase hatred, and history has often done justice to the people in the most brutal way. Violence and terror can arise in any era, when the lives of the people at the bottom are extremely miserable and unnoticed...... Since the bankers in Shanghai chose to help Chiang Kai-shek in the massacre of the people, then do not blame the comrades of the Red Army for fighting the White Terror with the Red Terror......"

At the same time, hundreds of disciples of the Green Gang were being arrested by Red Army soldiers from all over the city, loaded onto trucks, dragged to the Songhu Garrison Headquarters for collective execution, and then stuffed into containers in piles and transported away - the hard-working Wang Qiu will transport these fresh corpses to the new China of modern Shijie, practice their hands for the surgical students of major medical schools, improve their professional standards, and the organs can be made into specimens and placed in the showroom, which can be regarded as letting these scum exert their residual heat, By the way, I made a little money for the international column.

Under the large-scale purge of the Red Tenth Army, Shanghai Tang at the end of 1934 was plunged into an unprecedented red terror.

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At the same time, the entire sphere of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and even most of China, where the central government's banknotes were in circulation, fell into an unprecedented chaos like a boiling pot in an instant with the announcement of the Shanghai People's Radio.

-- After being stunned to learn that the head office and vault in Shanghai had been attacked by the Red Bandits, although the branch managers in various places had already resolutely closed their doors and closed down their business at the first time, the anxious ordinary people also fell into a state of rage, smashed the banks, and attacked them en masse, regardless of the need to withdraw their deposits, and exchanged the banknotes in their hands for gold, silver and foreign currency......

In this way, the run on banknotes in the area ruled by the Nationalist Government soon turned into a full-scale riot of smashing and looting.

Then, in a very short period of time, the financial system in a considerable part of China completely collapsed, coupled with the deliberate provocation of some underground parties and people with ulterior motives, and hundreds of cities quickly broke out into riots...... For this reason, these anxious local branches had to turn to the government for help, hoping that the Kuomintang army and police would come to help the town. But the problem was that the police and soldiers who arrived were equally anxious to cash in the money they had at hand, so after dispersing the people, they took the lead in dividing up the precious metals and the current stocks of the ocean in the small coffers of the branches......

In this way, seeing that the local banks have been looted, but the banknotes in their hands still can't be exchanged for gold bars and silver dollars, the people who are still holding the banknotes in their hands are really anxious, so that they will become waste paper banknotes, who dares to ask for them?!

And so people rushed to the streets, rushing at everything they could buy, and the rush for buying and the rush for rice rose higher and higher – not to be precise, they were no longer shopping spree, but throwing away money in a frenzy!

As a result, every commercial street in the southeast of the city is unusually lively, and there are crowds of people everywhere, like ants moving, and only groups of ordinary people carrying large bags of goods are seen on the road. What is a grocery store, a satin shop, a cotton shop, a grain store, a sauce garden, a firewood store...... All of them were snapped up, and even Chinese medicine was robbed - in the eyes of the people, no matter what they could buy, it was worth more than banknotes anyway!

What's worse is that in order to reduce losses, many shops simply refuse to accept banknotes from the Bank of China, the Bank of Communications, and the Central Bank, and are only willing to trade in the ocean, which immediately conflicts with customers...... As a result, prices skyrocketed, markets collapsed, and market riots erupted, and even delayed the Kuomintang army's military counterattack on Shanghai, where two German armoured divisions had just arrived in Zhenjiang by train from the capital Nanjing......

In the face of this super turmoil that broke out in an instant, Wang Jingwei, president of the Executive Yuan of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, suddenly felt that he was about to go crazy. (To be continued......)