XVII. The Collision of Two Eras (Part II)
And "Mr. Qiong Yao" Jin Qina, who is not "trendy" enough, naturally has a very bad impression of these undisciplined new-school literati of the Republic of China.
Before she really traveled to the Republic of China era, Jin Qina, who grew up watching the romance dramas of the Republic of China, was once fascinated by the unique charm of this era.
-- In the eyes of the Internet female writer sitting in front of the computer at that time, holding a cup of hot coffee, the Republic of China era was certainly dark, but it was rich and wonderful; It is bizarre and vibrant; It is reckless and heroic everywhere, and it is talented and talented; It is poor and bleak, and all beings are like ants, and they are luxurious, fragrant, and prosperous like dreams. There are earth-shattering historical upheavals, heart-wrenching heroic deeds, appalling wild historical events, the market situation of flies and dogs, the beautiful sound of lingering and graceful, and the picture of people's livelihood intertwined with joy and sorrow......
If you look back at the time and space of a century, it may not be the most haode era, but it is undoubtedly a very charming era.
However, when Jin Qina really walked into this turbulent era where ice and fire blended and human life was as humble as grass, saw the tragedies hidden under the magnificent historical picture scroll, and experienced the suffering and sorrow that ordinary people had to endure in this era, the original little beautiful fantasy and expectation of the Republic of China era disappeared in an instant. And that boundless, endless darkness, despair, anguish, struggle, sacrifice, destruction, anger, numbness...... But all of them are piled up in her heart, which can simply oppress people breathlessly!
- Silence, silence. Either it explodes in silence or it is perverted in silence.
In a strange time and place, in a strange country. Even in a different body, Jinjina suddenly remembered such a sentence that she had heard in her previous life.
It's a pity that in this era, she only saw too many bizarre, unbelievable cowards and perverts. And those hot-blooded youths who dared to explode seem to have disappeared in the white terror of the Kuomintang. As for most ordinary Chinese, as Lu Xun commented, they are "locked in an airtight dark iron house", chaotically waiting for disaster and destruction to come.
-- Chiang Kai-shek had such an incisive assessment of Chinese: "...... Right now. The mental state of the vast majority of Chinese is muddled and lifeless. In action, it is manifested as a lack of knowledge of good and evil, a lack of distinction between right and wrong, and a lack of distinction between public and private. From this, our officials are hypocritical. greed and corruption; Our people are discouraged and indifferent to the welfare of the country; Our youth are decadent and irresponsible; Our adults are sinister and ignorant; Rich people indulge in debauchery. Go on the loose; And the poor are weak and filthy. Lost in the darkness. All of this has led to the erosion of the authority and discipline of the government, and finally to social unrest, leaving us helpless and powerless in the face of natural disasters and foreign invasions. ”
When he said this, China had lost the three northeastern provinces, and the Japanese army was standing on the Shanhai Pass looking at the Central Plains, and the Chinese people were still insensitive.
However, Chiang Kai-shek said it quite beautifully. It's as high-sounding as his "diary to save the country", but when it's his turn to actually do things. It seems that he is not much more clever than the group of unscrupulous officials and mediocre officials he denounced -- at this time, when he personally went to the front line of "suppressing bandits" in Jiangxi, where he personally supervised the war, hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops not only burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil, but also "took local materials" and plundered young women near the war zone as prostitutes and forced them to "work in the army" with their bodies; Some ruffians even often break into the homes of ordinary people, rape and rape the women in front of the male host, and shoot those who dare to resist......
This series of brutal crimes is not much different from the bestiality of the "comfort women" of the Japanese devils in the future. Perhaps, according to the knowledge that Chairman Chiang gained at the pheasant school in Tokyo, as long as he learns the bestiality of the Japanese devils, then he will be able to have the combat effectiveness of the Japanese devils!
And when encountering student demonstrations, Chiang Kai-shek's favorite countermeasure was also very simple and rude, always "sweeping with machine guns"! On the eve of the outbreak of the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek went to Xi'an to force Zhang Xueliang to continue to attack the Red Army and massacre the anti-Japanese masses, and was kidnapped by Zhang Shaoshuai unbearably.
-- Compromise and surrender externally, and recklessly use military force at home. It is better to be with friends than with domestic slaves...... In that dark age of infinite sorrow, the Chinese really could not see a glimmer of hope for the future, and the hot-blooded young people living on the land of China really had to use their lives to love the country!
But think about it on the other hand, what qualifications does a "deserter" like himself who has traveled thousands of miles from the northeast to Shanghai have to accuse the Chinese people of being numb and chaotic? If you are really a warrior who "knows what you can't do and does it, and dies nine times without regrets", you should hold the battle flag of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation at this time, follow the footsteps of Yang Jingyu and Deng Tiemei in the forest and snow fields, and fight to the death with the Japanese Kwantung Army in that black land!
Thinking of this, Jin Qina couldn't help but smile bitterly - everyone has their own difficulties, they can't dedicate themselves to serving the country, how can they ask others? After all, isn't she herself looking at the fault of others with subjective feelings? In vain, she has always boasted of being "cold-eyed to the world", with a century of insight beyond the times, thinking that she knows everything and understands everything...... In fact, it is still a mistake that people who travel through often make!
This is a living shijie, not a few lines of lead words and a few old photos in a textbook. Being able to see the future is not the same as being able to change it.
She is just an ordinary literary and artistic youth, not a brave predator, unable to resist a gun, unable to kill anyone, not even as brave as the brave predecessors of the "Left-wing Writers' Union" who "fight with a pen", and does not have the courage to denounce the reactionary authorities head-on - she still has children to take care of!
After finishing her memories of that meeting, Jinjina sighed, no matter what, she still wanted to do something for the people of this era.
-- There seem to be enough tragic works and scar literature in this era, so let her do the opposite, and use her pen to praise those Chinese heroes who once boasted in foreign lands, and inspire the depressed Chinese people who have been immersed in inferiority and self-inferiority. Let them have more confidence!
We Chinese have never been a cowardly and inferior people! We also have our own legendary warriors and adventure heroes!
So, she rummaged through a box of "future books" brought by the traversers, and Zuihou turned out a copy of "Tianzhu Hot Wind Record". Prepare to "refer to" this book by Yoshiki Tanaka, write the legendary story of His Excellency Wang Xuance, the "best diplomat in history" in the Tang Dynasty, "one person destroyed a country", and reproduce the magnificent and wonderful history that was almost forgotten, as well as this "unprecedented miracle in the history of Shijie"!
In general, this forgotten diplomat of the Tang Dynasty is comparable to the Han envoy Chen Tang who shouted "Those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away".
-- In 647 AD, Wang Xuance was ordered by Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty to send an envoy to Tianzhu. Unexpectedly, at this time, the king of Jieri, who ruled many small princes in Tianzhu, died of illness, and Azuna took advantage of the chaos to usurp the throne. Then. When Arzuna heard that the Tang envoy was coming, he sent more than 1,000 soldiers to ambush the Tang envoy and put Wang Xuance and his party in prison.
However, Wang Xuance and his deputy envoy Jiang Shiren risked escaping from prison. And with the help of Princess Raja Sri Raja, the sister of the King of the Rings. Escaped from Tianzhu and went north to Nepal, borrowed 7,000 Nepalese cavalry and 1,200 Tibetan cavalry with the envoy's seal, and immediately re-entered Tianzhu to take revenge, and launched a fierce battle with Azuna's tens of thousands of troops, killing thousands of enemy troops, drowning more than 10,000 people, and capturing more than 10,000 people. The capture of Azuna restored stability and peace to the Tianzhu kingdoms.
When the Chinese are proud of the world. Even a diplomat who escaped death was able to gather a "multinational force" of 10,000 people with just one mouth, and then swept across the Indian peninsula with a wave of Fang Xuan, "destroying one country with one person", and turning Tianzhu, one of the four ancient civilizations, upside down in one go...... Such a gorgeous saga comparable to a Hollywood adventure movie outperforms all fiction and fiction.
-- Since our ancestors were able to be so arrogant and miraculously swept away thousands of miles away by the power of one man; So how can the current Chinese no longer create glory and hold their homeland on their own land?
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By noon, the rain from the typhoon had gradually subsided, and finally it had stopped completely, and the power supply was restored after lunch.
So, after taking a nap, Jin Qina took the manuscript of "Tianzhu Hot Wind Record" that had just completed the beginning and outline, and was going to take it to the editorial department where she signed a contract, and gave her responsible editor a look and consulted the other party's opinion on the book. But the problem is that Jin Qina's old house is located in the northern area of the public concession, and the editorial office of the contract is near the Commercial Press in Zhabei, which is very close to each other. But now that she has moved to Nanshi, if she wants to go to the editorial office in Zhabei, she has to pass through almost all of Shanghai from south to north.
Overall, for a single woman who wants to travel, the security situation in Shanghai at this time is not very reassuring.
-- Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, with the decline of the feudal natural economy and the full-scale invasion of Western powers, traditional Chinese society has begun a difficult and painful transition. Due to the substantial growth of the Chinese population in modern times, the arable land and productivity have not increased accordingly, coupled with the large-scale penetration of Western industry and commerce, and the bankruptcy of traditional handicraftsmen, a large number of landless farmers and bankrupt handicraftsmen have rushed to the metropolis of Shanghai to make a living, and businessmen from all over China and even foreign countries have also come to Shanghai in an endless stream to look for opportunities, so that the city's population size has rapidly expanded in a short period of time.
However, in that sad year, even Shanghai could not smoothly absorb so many low-quality people, so it was inevitable that a large number of unemployed homeless people appeared in the city, just like the little homeless Sanmao in "Sanmao Wandering". These people have no food and clothing, struggle for a long time on the line of food and clothing, and even on the line of death, and are strongly tempted and stimulated by the life of drunken money and money every day, and it is very easy for them to develop hatred and rebellion, thus prompting them to embark on the road of crime -- the underworld organizations that made people smell and change the color of old Shanghai were born and grew on the soil of this nomadic class.
On the other hand, the lack of municipal unity in old Shanghai made it impossible for anyone to effectively manage the city, and eventually made Shanghai Beach highly chaotic.
-- At this time, Shanghai was divided into four parts: the Chinese Concession, the Public Concession, the Japanese Concession, and the French Concession. These four areas are not affiliated with each other and are within an urban area of 60 square kilometers. There are four governments, four legislatures, four judicial and police corps! And none of these four shili can cross the line to enforce the law, for example, if you rob something in the Chinese world, you will be caught if you are chased by the police. As long as you run to Jie Street at this time and plunge into the concession, even if the police can grab your clothes with one step, he will have to obediently stop and turn back to his police station, and then the police station will contact the concession police to discuss cooperation in arrest.
It used to be said that old Shanghai was a "paradise for adventurers". This sentence has two meanings under the literal word, one is to say that engaging in business and trade, there are opportunities in Shanghai. As long as your ability is great enough; The second is to engage in criminal activities, which is also a relaxed paradise -- bandits are rampant and the rectification is not effective.
So, behind the extravagant and bright deformed prosperity. Theft, robbery, fraud, drug trafficking, murder and other criminal activities are happening in Shanghai all the time. The kidnapping cases alone have reached an average of one or two horrific cases per day. Even the powerful underground members of the CCP have suffered greatly -- not long ago, an unlucky traffic officer was drugged and kidnapped by a rickshaw driver on the way to escort funds, and he was instantly deprived of both people and money. After losing all his money and belongings to barely get out, this person no longer dared to contact the party organization, but quietly fled to the countryside to live in seclusion. As a result, he also lost a crucial transfer of funds as a result of his abandonment and flight. As a result, the Shanghai underground party almost failed to escape from the white zone......
So, to be on the safe side. Jin Qina drove out of her Ford, and Wang Qiu, Professor Yang, and Little Bird You Zhenbai also escorted her with guns.
When driving through the concession, looking out through the car window, the country within a country is still as prosperous as before, from time to time you can see women with bright makeup standing on the side of the road to solicit customers, and the colorful neon lights on both sides of the street also look a little flashy and extravagant.
The car then crossed the Waibaidu Bridge across the Suzhou Creek and entered the northern part of the Public Concession, which had become de facto a Japanese Concession. When passing by her own house last month, Jin Qina couldn't help but feel sad again - she knew the course of history and knew that Shanghai was not a comfortable nest, but because of the blurred memory, she couldn't make a plan in advance, and after fleeing the northeast, she was once again driven out of her home by the Japanese invaders.
Travelers aren't omnipotent, are they...... This filled Jinchina's heart with resentment and remorse, but she was completely helpless about it.
A few hours later, when Jin Qina had finished communicating with the editor, picked up the latest batch of readers' letters from the editorial office, and once again crossed the Zhabei Huajie, Hongkou Japanese Concession, Public Concession and French Concession, and returned to the vicinity of her new home in Huajie, Nanshi, Shanghai, it was already dusk, and the sky was once again drizzling. Wisps of cold rain fell silently, adding a bit of silence to this quiet street.
Since Xiaoniao You Zhenbai still had to drive to the commercial street of the Bund to shop, Wang Qiu, Professor Yang and Jin Qina got out of the car at the entrance of the alley, gave up the Ford to Xiaoniao You Zhenbai, and then walked back slowly along the wet and muddy gravel path, each holding an umbrella.
However, less than fifty meters away from the Jin family's new residence, the three of them were blocked by an uninvited guest.
This is a middle-aged Chinese pastor wearing a black linen robe with a silver cross on his chest. He had a medieval mushroom head and a few thin goatees, and he looked kind, but he held a large, ferocious hammer in his hand.
-- This is Comrade Hu Dexing, the first general political commissar of the Chinese branch of the Comintern's exorcism column, the earliest originator and founder of the Chinese supernatural organization to which Wang Qiu and others belonged, and the "red pastor" who is even older than the CCP itself!
Seeing this "red priest" suddenly appear, the three traversers present suddenly felt a "buzz" in their heads, and their minds seemed to be blank.
“…… I've been waiting for you guys for a long time. I don't know where it came from...... Homosexuals? Don't deny it, there's something I can feel......"
Looking at the stunned expressions of these people in front of him, General Political Commissar Hu Dexing stretched out his hand and stroked his beard, pretending to say to them leisurely.
Then, with a grimace, he took out a solid gold badge decorated with a sickle, a hammer, and a five-pointed star, and recited the oath word by word:
“…… The darkness of ignorance and hypocrisy still shrouds this shijie! I swear that from today onwards I will fight for the truth! ”
After Professor Yang Wenli's expression changed violently and struggled repeatedly for a moment, he finally sighed dejectedly, patted Wang Qiu's shoulder, and then took out another silver badge from his bosom, which was also decorated with a sickle, hammer and a five-pointed star, and took the words of General Political Commissar Hu Dexing, "...... I will not be religious, delusional, or confused, and I will pierce the hypocritical mask of all exploiters, and I will do my duty faithfully until death! I am a seeder of civilization and science, and I am a preacher of democracy and progress. I am the torch that banishes superstition, I am the sickle that destroys ignorance, I am the hammer that smashes the shackles, I am the guardian of all mankind! I dedicate my life and glory to the greatest scientific communist faith, and this is true today, every day! ”
-- The political commissars of the two eras, the red organizations of the two eras, collided with each other for the first time in the summer of 1934 in Shanghai! (To be continued......)