“…… On the concession side, begging is strictly not allowed, so there are very few beggars on the streets, and even the unemployed vagrants are just curled up in the corners and doing nothing. If you are in Zhabei or Nanshi, if you dress brightly and go out on the street, you will easily be blocked by crowds of beggars and unable to walk! However, if compared with other cities on the north bank of the Yangtze River, the number of refugees in Shanghai this year is actually relatively small, after all, it is separated by the Yangtze River, and there is no bridge across the river these years, so it is not easy for the displaced people in the north to come over. Nantong and Yangzhou in Jiangbei are really starving, and many yarn factories have closed down...... Not to mention that there seems to be a drought on the Huai River in northern Jiangsu for a while......"

Looking at the scene in front of her, where there were many sorrows and blind streams, Jinjina couldn't help but sigh and said, "...... I heard that when the Japanese came over the year before last and instigated the '128' incident in Shanghai, the French Concession had to pull away several truckloads of frozen corpses every morning......

“…… Well, there should be more refugees pouring into Shanghai next. According to historical records, there should be a major flood in northern Jiangsu next year, and there seem to be locusts next, at least hundreds of thousands of people will die...... Later, it should have been the Japanese invasion of China, Chiang Kai-shek opened the Yellow River embankment at Huayuankou, forming a flood area of nearly 300,000 square kilometers in Anhui, Henan, and Jiangsu, and millions of people died in floods......"

Wang Qiu recalled the history of this period of time and said to Jin Qina, "...... China in this era was a purgatory full of all kinds of suffering. The Central Plains is full of all kinds of wars and chaos, natural disasters and man-made disasters, and the three northeastern provinces were originally quite happy. It's a pity to wait until the Japanese come...... Hey, let's talk about what Manchukuo is, and it also launched a Kant Emperor Puyi decently. But how did the Japanese distinguish between Han Chinese and Manchus? Not the same China pig? I remember your hometown, Fushun, the land of the Manchus, who seemed to have been slaughtered by the Japanese Kwantung Army in the autumn of 32, and I didn't see any leniency for the Manchus, and I don't know if your mother's family suffered...... Alas, Miss Kim, or Miss Aixin Jueluo. Don't be sad, anyway, the Republic of China era is like this, everyone has an easy life. If you die, you will get used to dying......"

…… God, is there any place in the world where you are so comforting? Can you get used to death?! I can't speak!

Jin Qina couldn't help but squint at him, but she felt very good Wang Qiu didn't realize it - no way, so far. The one who died at his hands. It is estimated that it is already more than the total casualties of the entire eight-year War of Resistance in China, how can you let Wang Qiu take human life seriously?

However, in the entire Republic of China era, a dead person is indeed like a dead ant, and no one will take it as a thing at all. Think about how many children froze to death in the garbage bin in later generations, and it immediately became the headline news that spread all over the country. An oil pipeline explosion in a certain city that killed and injured several hundred people caused a major earthquake at all levels of government, from the central to the local level...... And what about now? The Central Army slaughtered a city in the Jiangxi Soviet District or the Japanese in the northeast, killing tens of thousands of innocent people. Ordinary people sigh after hearing it, and forget it in a blink of an eye. If it's a bandit, slaughter a village of a few hundred people. Even the newspapers don't bother to report it - it's all too common and completely unnewsworthy!

The current time is May 1934, the Northern Expedition and the Great Revolution have long been a thing of the past, and the split between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the Great War in the Central Plains are also things of the past. Through the September 18 Incident, the December 8 Incident, and the North China Incident, Japan has seized hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of China's vast land, and is still busy digesting the fruits of victory, and there are no new further actions for the time being. At present, the fiercest fighting in China is the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression of the Jiangxi Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and the Red Army's 25,000-mile Long March, which has not yet begun, which can basically be regarded as a local war.

However, even in this buffer period between the wars, the world is already so miserable, and when the war is blazing in the future, I don't know what kind of purgatory scene will be - according to normal history, soon after the Red Army's Long March, there was the Xi'an Incident, the 77 Incident, the eight-year War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, and then there was a civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in which tens of millions of soldiers and horses fought brutally, and the war would not be extinguished until the establishment of New China fifteen years later.

In so many long years, there was not a single day without war in China, and not an inch of land was not ravaged, until the People's Liberation Army swept away the Kuomintang's 8 million army and Chairman Mao proclaimed New China from the tower of Tiananmen Square, the whole country was already devastated. The people groaned in the smoke of the war, and there was no respite at all, and the people who died directly and indirectly in the war alone numbered tens of millions! If we also count the deaths caused by famine and pestilence, the number is even more appalling – at least in the hundreds of millions!

These people hold hands and are enough to circle the earth more than twice. Can you imagine the horror of hundreds of millions of corpses surrounding the earth?

Compared with the mountains of corpses and blood in the previous years, the casualties in the later days to resist US aggression and aid Korea are probably nothing at all.

Even the Jiangnan region, which was the richest region in China at the time, was in a very miserable situation at the moment - due to the massive impact of foreign goods, the rural areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang were generally bankrupt in the thirties of the twentieth century, but the cities were abnormally prosperous. As a result, tens of thousands of bankrupt peasants and even bankrupt landlords flocked to Shanghai in search of food. But these people are neither educated nor skilled, and after entering the city, they are mixed with haode. Most people can only carry large bags, sell cigarettes, pull rickshaws, work as domestic servants, or work as small laborers in factories, and their income is very low and unstable, and they may lose their money or lose their jobs at some point.

What is even worse is that a large number of unemployed people from outside the country have been wandering in prosperous cities for a long time, which will inevitably lead to serious chaos in public order and order......

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“…… Shanghai has a population of only about 4 million, but 600,000 people are unable to find stable jobs. The concession authorities and the Kuomintang Shanghai Municipal Government did not provide much relief, and it can be said that there are countless people who jump into the Huangpu River, Suzhou Creek, wells, and hangs themselves every year......"

Look at this place full of homeless people. seems to be the live-action version of "Sanmao Wanderings", and Professor Yang Wenli, who is the most disciplined among the people, is naturally in a depressed mood. “…… It's unbelievable that I will walk into this history ...... textbooks and documentaries on party history."

“…… Oh, I said, anyway, we are not Chinese in this era, so don't make the atmosphere so depressing! Let's find a small restaurant first, taste the pure flavor of the folk food of the Republic of China, and then go to the Bund to enjoy the real old Shanghai style? ”

Senior Sister Ma Tong, who was the most undisciplined among the people, took out a few gold coins from her pocket. He smiled hehe, his eyes wandering like water waves: "...... Although I have visited the style streets of old Shanghai in the film and television base, the kind of stuff that is cobbled together with cement and plastic. It's really not comparable to the real thing. ”

And Wang Qiu stared at the gold coin that Ma Tong took out to show off, with an embarrassed face.

“…… What kind of money are you getting here? Gold Ore coins from Ancient Rome, gold Florents and Ducats from Medieval Italy, um. There seems to be a silver drachma coin from ancient Greece...... Such ancient money was in Shanghai during the Republic of China. How can you spend it? ”

“…… So what to do? In RMB or NTD? Ma Tong pursed his lips, "...... As an international metropolis in this era, there are so many foreigners in Shanghai, and there must be a lot of foreign currency in circulation! Can those hawkers and shopkeepers know so many foreign languages? ”

“…… The new Shanghai of the 21st century is also an international metropolis, you can find a foreigner to pay in Peruvian currency or Iraqi dinars in a bar, and see if the bartender will agree? Jinjina also smiled bitterly, "...... Never mind. If you want to eat, I'll pay for it. It's also a gift of hospitality to my family. Moreover, as the saying goes, wealth is not exposed, and this Shanghai is known as a paradise for adventurers, and the security is really not very good......"

As if to make a footnote to her words, before Jinchina's words fell, a noisy noise sounded in front of her—a large group of big men armed with sharp axes, clubs, and knives, with tattoos tattooed on their arms, squeezed passers-by in a menacing stride. Subsequently, from a corner alley, another group of guys who were also holding murder weapons and showing a fierce light also appeared, and confronted the group of people in front of them......

After the two teams took a look on the street, they first put on a posture and scolded, and the leading brothers on both sides spat at each other, counting their own benevolence and the other party's injustice - no matter what era it is, the gangster fight pays attention to a scene, and there is no reason to start fighting as soon as it comes up, this is all an old routine and old habit. It's a pity that they seem to be speaking Ningbo dialect on the one hand, and Fujian dialect on the other. Not only did Wang Qiu basically not understand, but they also seemed to be talking to each other - after squirting, accompanied by the roar of the dragon head brother, the younger brothers of the two sides quickly collided and fought together, followed by a series of earth-shattering shouts and killings, screams, wails, roars, curses, begging for mercy, and the sound of blades colliding in the air...... In short, there was a mess of all the noise, and occasionally a few gunshots rang out, and the citizens around them ran away, avoiding them.

Obviously, this is a fight between two groups of gangsters, and both sides are used to doing this, although the fight seems to be murderous, blood splashes, in fact, there are very few deaths, usually chopping hands and feet. After all, this group of people are all eating on the road, and knowing that their kind of cannon fodder is enough as long as they half-truths and half-truths hit a result, it is really not worth it to take their own lives, leaving a way for others to live, is equivalent to leaving a way for themselves.

In fact, this firefight did not last long, because the two sides were evenly matched, no one could have the upper hand, and after less than five minutes, the leading brothers of both sides each threw down a few cruel words, and then supported the wounded, and withdrew before the patrol of the concession arrived.

“…… Hey, in Taizhou, Zhejiang, in the next century, as well as a county town in Guangdong, I have also seen a few scenes like this where ruffians and hooligans opened films with each other, and I feel that the street fighting tactics of our Chinese gangsters seem to have not changed much in a hundred years, and even the knives are almost ......."

Ma Tong touched her chin and sighed, talking about what she saw and heard when she was still selling toilets in the ceramic market.

“…… But there should still be something different, and lo and behold, the street speech with the characteristics of the Republic of China is coming! ”

Wang Qiu stretched out his hand and pointed to a group of people who had gathered on the side of the road not far away and shouted slogans, and said this to his companions.

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“…… Compatriots, the black soil of the three northeastern provinces has fallen for nearly three years. Thirty million Chinese sons and daughters are moaning under the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders. Then, there are Rehe, Chahar, North China, Pingjin...... The government's cowardly retreat again and again was rewarded with the increasing arrogance of Japanese imperialism! Even a small child knows it. My heart will not die! But what are the authorities doing in Nanjing? In groveling to the Japanese imperialists, they are guaranteed to suppress anti-Japanese activities! Ban anti-Japanese groups! Put your own neck on the noose! ”

“…… Compatriots, this is our China! A China that has been wantonly bullied! A China! Let countless people be full of tears, deeply love, but can't love China! If we continue to be numb, then soon there will be no one to love the motherland! ”

A young student wearing thick glasses and a gray cloth robe stood on a bench at the corner of the street, waving his arms, and was giving a speech to the crowd around him with excitement. His face was welling up with blood. Swollen red; The woolen scarf around the neck was also thrown off the shoulder and hung down to the waist due to the excessive gesture of the hand; The hem of the robe is marked with four patches. Although they are washed white, the difference in the color of the fabric can still be clearly distinguished.

For the passionate speech of this poor scholar, several fashionable and bewitching women leaned over to take a look, and then twisted their soft waists like water snakes. He walked away with his head tilted. But many more people were deeply moved by his words. I felt a surging enthusiasm brewing in that thin body, and with that gesture and gaze, it burst out, encouraging every heart that was unwilling to be numb anymore.

“…… North China is in an emergency! Pingjin is in a hurry! Shanghai is definitely not a paradise either! The Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous moment! ”

“…… In the face of the bayonets of the Japanese invaders, some people were afraid. However, if there is no consciousness of death, how can we face the strong guns of Japanese imperialism? If we don't have the courage to do justice, how can we awaken the sleeping national blood of our ancient country? ”

“…… I don't understand. In this huge China, Weishenme is always bullied? We have 40,000 compatriots. With a vast land, as long as we can unite, what enemy cannot be defeated? Why be afraid of little Japan? ”

At the end of this speech, the student shouted in grief and indignation, and there seemed to be tears in his eyes, triggering a chorus of echo.

In this regard, Wang Qiu, who had been listening with his ears pricked up not far away, just sighed - this student is probably too optimistic.

The Great China? Where is this huge China now? Guangdong is Chen Jitang's, Guangxi is Li Zongren's, Yunnan is Longyun's, and Guizhou is Wang Jialie's. Sichuan is Liu Xiang's, further north are Qingma and Ningma, Xinjiang also has a Sheng Shicai, Shaanxi's Yang Hucheng is relatively honest for the time being, but this honest man Zuihou has done the most vigorous thing. Shanxi is Yan Laoxi's, his son-in-law Fu Zuoyi is in charge of Suiyuan, Shandong is Han Fuyu's territory, Hunan is He Jian's, and Fujian originally belonged to Cai Tingkai's gang of the 19th Route Army...... These are all princes, these are all those who have an army in their hands, if they are willing to listen to Jiang Guangtou's words, they will listen to it, and if they don't want to listen, they will oppose his mother! In just a few years, they have rebelled many times!

Count carefully, how many provinces are left in the territory that this Jiang bald head can really manage? It is nothing more than the five provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, and Jiangxi with Nanjing as the center, plus Fujian, which has just been defeated and recaptured by the 19th Route Army. is such a territory that is similar to the Soochow regime in the Three Kingdoms era, and the Communist Party has ruthlessly dug a hole in the heart, creating a Chinese Soviet Republic and a bunch of base areas, no wonder Lao Jiang will tear his face "outside must first settle inside", gritted his teeth and desperately suppressed the Communist Party - the place of the heart, the side of the couch!

It is said that there are 40,000 compatriots, and they think that they are numerous, but now the people who are really under the rule of Lao Jiang may not be able to catch up with the population of Little Japan!

What's more, the Kuomintang regime in this era, like the Gangcan of later generations, has long been accustomed to throwing itself to the ground in front of foreign colonists, and regards kneeling and flattering as a normal phenomenon. If anyone wants to stand up, they are afraid that they will be even more resentful and anxious than the imperialist aggressors!

Neither the national strength and military strength that is proud of the others, nor the will and determination to fight to the death, such a weak comprador government that betrays the country to seek glory, such a brutal old-style army that can only commit murder at home, even if it is equipped with Apache helicopter gunships and Aegis cruisers, will still be beaten to pieces by the Imperial Japanese Army with the 38 big cover...... Of course, in the future, Taiwan's armed forces will further degenerate to the point that they have lost even the ability to commit crimes at home, and will be reduced to strawberry soldiers who can do push-ups to death and active garbage cans that specialize in handling all kinds of backlog of agricultural products.

And in the midst of countless Shanghai citizens, the patriotic student's anti-Japanese speech continued.

“…… Both the Japanese and the traitors want us to be afraid! May we be deterred from death and prison! May we bow down before terror and oppression! It's just ridiculous! Bullets can easily penetrate our thin flesh and blood, and how can they penetrate the determination of 40,000,000 hot-blooded sons and daughters to fight one after another? The shackles can easily lock our hands without weapons, but how can we lock the fearless courage of the Chinese nation that is unwilling to sink? ”

“…… When I saw a sleeping Oriental lion roaring and waking up, who was scared? One tragic case after another tells us that under the hypocritical rhetoric of Japanese imperialism and the traitorous government, more and more compromises and concessions can only be exchanged for the destruction of the country and the nation. We must carry out the struggle of zuihou! Our land must be reclaimed! Our power must be exercised! If blood can buy the integrity of the country, we are willing to pay blood! If sacrifice can be exchanged for the reconquest of lost territory, we are willing to enjoy sacrifice! (To be continued......)