However, the days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, on December 4, Mr. Qing went to Xi'an to supervise the war.

On December 12, the Xi'an Incident occurred.

At that time, most of the Red Party members advocated killing Mr. Qing, but Stalin of the Soviet Union firmly opposed it and demanded that he must be released.

In the end, after more than ten days of mediation, Mr. Qing was forced to sign six agreements and accept the idea of ending the civil war and uniting to resist Japan. Since then, the second bipartisan cooperation has begun, which is a cooperation at a critical juncture for the life and death of the Chinese nation.

Subsequently, Mr. Qing began to divide the war zone, dispatch troops, and actively prepare for war.

Due to the restrictions of the 1932 Armistice Agreement, the Chinese army could not be stationed in and around the city, and only two regiments of the police corps and the security forces under the command of Yang Hu, commander of the Songhu garrison, were stationed in the city, and the troops were weak. However, Japan stationed heavy troops in the Hongkou and Yangpu areas, and set up a special headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps in Shanghai, with more than 3,000 marines stationed in Shanghai, and a large number of Japanese warships patrolling along the Yangtze River and Huangpu River all year round.

So before the war began, the situation was very sinister!

However, this was the end of 1936, and 813 was still a few months away. Therefore, most of the people in the demon capital, running and dancing, did not feel the threat of war.

Before the Anti-Japanese War, the magic capital was the largest metropolis in Asia, the economic scale was 4 times that of Beiping, the land area was less than 1/10,000 of the country, and the population was 3 million, less than 1% of the country, but the GDP accounted for 6.07% of the country, and the per capita GDP was 6.79 times that of the country.

It is precisely for this reason that in 918 Japan occupied the northeast, and the Qingbai Party thought it was the disease of scabies; Qiqi Lugou Bridge, the Japanese occupied Beiping and Tianjin, and although the Qingbai Party was distressed, it did not hurt to the bones; and in 813, the Japanese occupied the magic capital, and the Qingbai Party immediately became anxious!

At this time, Japan had not yet launched an attack on the Demon Capital, but Mr. Qing had already decided to focus the war on the southeast theater!

To this end, he drew a large number of troops and moved to the southeast, but because the roads were not easy to walk, the army was slow to move and could not be in place for the time being.

For example, the Songhu Garrison Headquarters has newly repaired four telegraph and telephone lines between Beijing and Shanghai, the wooden bridge over the Suzhou River near the Hongqiao Airport in western Shanghai from Nanxiang Town, the detailed location of the Japanese stronghold in the magic capital and the city's traffic route map, the addition of coastal observation posts in various counties in Pudong, the addition of police corps, the construction of 29 fortifications for national defense strongholds, the blockade plan of the Huangpu River in Nanshi, and the organization of special forces.

On this day, Du Yuesheng came to see Qin Di and said straight to the point: "Mr. Qin, I want to cooperate with the national army, rent private houses in the Zhabei area, and build a steel hoop cement bunker indoors. ”

Qin Di didn't say a word, and directly agreed: "Well, I will invest 20 million and add 300 light machine guns!"

When Du Yuesheng heard this, she was immediately surprised and delighted, and admired it so much!

"Mr. Qin, you are so generous! I am ready to wait for the big war to start before publicizing your contribution in the newspapers. ”

Qin Di waved his hand: "Don't be like this." I'm just a little bit of a floating fortune, I can't catch up with Mr. Du, you still have to gather a large number of people, and there may be a lot of sacrifices. ”

Du Yuesheng gritted his teeth and said: "Part of them are my Qinggang disciples, some of them are workers in the Demon Capital, and many people are willing to participate in the war!"

Qin Di said: "If this money is not enough, I can double it again and compensate the sacrificed righteous people!"

"It's enough for the time being, if it's not enough, I'll ask for it again. ”

"Well, if you have something, just ask. ”

Qin Di took out 20 million yuan, but it was a cause and effect, because two years ago, he sold the houses north of Suzhou Creek, and those houses would be destroyed by the war, and the people who bought the houses would be miserable.

Qin Di sold the house at that time to get a silver dollar, catching up with the appreciation of silver, and in less than a year, it became 20 million US dollars.

Every December, it is the time for Qin Di to summon the managers of the major companies under his command. Each manager has to come to the magic capital to report on his work, explain the company's operation in the past year, what progress has been made, and the difficulties encountered.

This year seems to be calm, but the coming year will be stormy, so Qin Di spent more thought and communicated patiently with everyone.

He first summoned Zhang He, general manager of Guotai Pharmaceutical, and demanded that all the production lines of penicillin, streptomycin, and oxytetracycline be removed before June 1937! In particular, the strains under key protection must not fall into the hands of the Japanese!

Zhang He said: "Our machinery and equipment are relatively simple, and it is easy to relocate the factory, but the staff in the factory are not necessarily willing to leave. Because the magic capital is a big city second to none after all, these people suddenly moved, not only unaccustomed to the environment in the west, but also faced difficulties with their personal families. ”

Qin Di said: "Give double the salary to those who are willing to move west, and those who are unwilling to leave will automatically leave!"

"That's going to lose a lot of talent!"

"We have a full set of production technology, and it is easy to train talents. ”

"What if those who leave leave take the technology with them?"

"The technology for the production of antibiotics has long been disclosed, and the main point is that the strains we have worked hard to cultivate, as long as the strains are well protected, we are not afraid of leakage by technicians. Besides, we still have patent protection, and although the patent system does not work during the war, outsiders cannot produce it blatantly. ”

"Alright then, I'll try to arrange it. ”

Then Qin Di called Zhu Shi and Zhu Lian, the president of Qin's grain store, and asked them to transport the grain from the granary in the eastern region, except for the magic capital, all the cities east of Wuhan, including Hangzhou, Jinling, Zhenjiang, Anqing, Jiujiang, Changsha, Jinan, Kaifeng and other places, these grain stores are ready to give up at any time, and they can't leave the grain to the Japanese!

Zhu Shi is a distant relative of Zhu Wan and asked, "Young Master, can the Japanese really hit Wuhan?"

Qin Di nodded: "Yes, but it will take time, we have to evacuate little by little, move most of the grain first, and when the war starts, I will inform you to evacuate the relevant personnel." ”

"Do you want our family to move with us?"

"I forgot, where does your family live?"

"In Hongkou District. ”

"That's not going to work! All the area north of Suzhou Creek will be occupied by the Japanese. As the director of the Qin Clan's grain store, you are likely to be caught by the Japanese and forced to donate food, or you will kill people, so what will you do?"

"Then we can't help but leave. ”

"I built a house in Chongqing, you can move there. ”

"Understood, eldest young master. ”