Late at night in winter, Longhua Temple, Shanghai, the detention center affiliated to the Songhu Garrison Command.

At the end of the year, the weather in the water towns south of the Yangtze River is particularly gloomy. Under the dim and cold moonlight, the biting cold wind blew across the roof, making a whining sound, like the grievances and cries of countless ghosts, which made people feel creepy and cold down their spines.

Listening to this terrible wind, Yu Qiaqing, who was locked in the cell, suddenly felt cold all over her body, and had to tremble and hug her arms tightly.

The cell was dark, high, and eerie. In each cell there was a wooden toilet with a lid, which had not been emptied for some time, and the smell was very unpleasant, but it was winter, otherwise the house would have been full of flies. There is also a moldy green quilt, Mo said lying down, just sitting and feeling musty and choking. The walls were covered with unfading stains of blood and blurred text, but unfortunately there were no lights on in the cell, so they were unrecognizable.

For the progressive youth of the Republic of China era, the Shanghai Longhua Garrison Command was a very terrible place. When the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup d'état took place seven years ago, all sorts of prominent leftists filled the cells and then shot hundreds of them.

In the years that followed, the building remained a fascinating cave — under the White Terror of the Kuomintang, many people were captured here every year and then executed without any trial. For example, Mr. Lu Xun's friend, left-wing writer Rou Shi and others, sang "The Internationale" here tragically, shouting "Down with the Kuomintang!" "He was shot indiscriminately and killed, and it is said that he was shot ten times when he died......

Of course. During these terrible years, there were also many fathers of the Xinhai Revolution, such as Hu Hanmin's party-state leaders. Here shouting "Long live Prime Minister Sun Yat-sen!" "Long live the Three People's Principles! "Down with the traitor Chiang Kai-shek!" The slogan was beaten into a sieve by the machine guns of the Kuomintang military police.

As an important supporter of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek in Shanghai and an important manager in China of American and British financiers, Yu Qiaqing, a "well-known person in Shanghai," was naturally familiar with this place -- he remembered that on the eve of the "April 12" counterrevolutionary coup, he acted as a political broker many times. Going back and forth to this building, which was once used as the headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army, coerced and lured Chiang Kai-shek, who was still hesitant at the time, to decisively raise a butcher's knife and "purge the party and eradicate the Communist Party", and once sneered at the sight of those hated trade union leaders and leftist literati being escorted here. And then don't think about it.

But Yu Qiaqing never dreamed that one day he would be nailed to handcuffs and leg irons and stuffed into this terrifying black prison!

You must know that his "barefoot God of Wealth" Yu Qiaqing is a well-known figure in Shanghai. A veritable financial tycoon. He is not only the big comprador of ABN AMRO. He gave a hand to the Rothschild family, the "uncrowned king" of the international banking industry, and at the same time ran a money bank, an investment bank, a shipping company, and made friends with three religions and nine streams. So much so that the Queen of the Netherlands, who knew nothing about Chinese customs, gave a royal table clock in recognition of her achievements.

- A super boss like this with great powers, broad connections, and foreigners. Who dares to move in Shanghai? Who can move?

So, from the end of the Qing Dynasty to Beiyang to the Kuomintang government. Yu Qiaqing was all in Shanghai and laughed at the changes in the political scene, and she was very moisturized. No matter which warlord ruled the city, they could only be polite to him, the "barefoot God of Wealth", and asked him to help raise military funds and contact the great powers.

However, at this very moment, all this daunting glory and shili is not even a fart in front of the ferocious red bandits.

-- From the landing on Suzhou on December 23 to the capture of Shanghai on December 26, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army entered Shanghai at an astonishing speed, and then swept away the Shanghai garrisons of the imperialist powers in defiance of the world's condemnation...... The speed of change in the situation in the past few days has made the tycoons in Shanghai dumbfounded and scrambling for a while. For example, after the panicked "barefoot God of Wealth" Yu Qiaqing escaped from the Ministry of Industry in a hurry, he was kicked open by a group of Red Army soldiers and arrested before he could decide whether to pack up and abscond quickly, or stay to watch the news.

Of course, the guy who has fallen into such a fate now is far from being the only one who is his "barefoot God of Wealth" Yu Qiaqing -- when he was rudely dragged out of his house and escorted to prison by Red Army soldiers, Yu Qiaqing was almost stunned to see Fu Xiao'an, chairman and general manager of China International Commercial Bank, Chen Guangfu, general manager of Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank, Zhang Jiaxuan, general manager of Bank of China, Song Ziwen, former finance minister of the Nationalist Government, Xi Demao, the new head of the Dongting Xi family, the "No. 1 comprador in China," and Xi Deshan, director of the Central Mint...... All of them have become cellmates with themselves! The entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols were almost wiped out!

In addition to the bigwigs in the banking circles, he also saw here that the veteran of the Green Gang, Huang Jinrong, and other gangsters, as well as many important members of the Kuomintang military and government organs in Shanghai, obviously did not have time to escape and were intercepted by the Red Bandits. What is even more terrifying is that these red bandits, who do not know the height of the sky, actually arrested the chief director of the Public Concession Ministry of Industry and Bureau, the agent of the Sassoon family, the real estate tycoon of Shanghai, as well as the diplomatic consuls of various countries in Shanghai, and a member of the Rothschild family who came to Shanghai to "inspect business...... Plus a whole bunch of rich Jewish businessmen! Oh my God! After sweeping the chaebols of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the red bandits offended the foreigners in the Shanghai Tang Concession again! Are they all dying?!!

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“…… These mud-legged red bandits who deserve to be thundered and split every day! Even foreigners from all over the world dare to arrest it! You poor guys think you're immortals! ”

In the dead of night, looking at the red flag fluttering outside through the narrow iron window and by the moonlight, Yu Qiaqing couldn't help but raise a finger and curse fiercely, trying to vent the panic and resentment in her heart, "...... Do you poor guys know who you've offended? The foreigners of all countries will soon mobilize a large army and crush you all into meat sauce! You'll be crying then! Even the gods don't want to save you! ”

However, just as Yu Qiaqing was scolding inwardly, there was a long sigh behind him.

“…… Alas, financial investors are really the most reactionary and crazy group of people on this shijie, and they have come to this point, and they still refuse to admit defeat, still delusional that foreign masters will come to save you? Anyway, let's drag them out for trial first! ”

Immediately afterwards, several iron doors of the Longhua Detention Center were suddenly opened, and a group of Red Army soldiers rushed in with flashlights, and dozens of once powerful Shanghai tycoons were brought out from cell to cell, and then escorted them to a brightly lit conference room with bayonets. (To be continued......)