A month later, Gu Rumei left Tongbai Dongtian and went to Kunming according to Qin Di's suggestion, because there was a good atmosphere there and she could play the guqin to improve her fairy sound. The demon capital is completely controlled by the Japanese, and she is already wanted, although she is a cultivator, it is impossible to be caught by the Japanese army, but if she is forced to show her skills, she is bound to make a big noise.

Then more than a month later, Qin Di went out of the customs and returned to the magic capital with Yan Xue.

In January 1943, after negotiations with Japan, the Wang Dawei regime recovered the public concession and the French concession in the magic capital, and the concession that lasted for nearly a hundred years (1845-1943) came to an end.

Due to the special background of the times, in 1943, many different forces gathered in the Modu Concession, and they entrenched one side, including Jewish merchants, Manchurian relics, Japanese ronins, Indian patrols, Qingbai Party agents, members of the Great Red Party, the British and French ruling class in the concession area, the Qinggang Hongmen and other folk gangs, as well as Liyuan operas, peddlers and pawns. At that time, the concession of the Demon Capital could be described as a mixture of three religions and nine streams, dragons and snakes, and there was no second time in Chinese history that such different races and forces gathered in such a small area.

On January 10, in order to cooperate with Wang's puppet government's declaration of war on Britain and the United States, the puppet China Film Company stopped screening British and American [Tian Lai www.23txt.xyz] films.

Subsequently, the Supreme Commander of the Japanese Army and Navy in the magic capital announced the measures to restrict the transportation of grain. It is stipulated that without the permission of the Japanese army, all grains such as rice, wheat, beans, and millet and their finished products in the Modu area are not allowed to be transported out of the Qingxiang area, nor are they allowed to be transported into the blockade line of the Modu City.

The Puppet Qingxiang Committee also issued the "Implementation Rules for the First Phase of the Clearing Township Area of the Magic Capital". Provision for the establishment of a household inventory implementation committee. By 20 February, household registration will be checked in phases, and all men over the age of 12 and under the age of 60 without family members will return to their hometowns or be arrested.

On the morning of January 25, a fire broke out in Hartung Garden, and the bungalow was burned.

Let's talk about Hartung and the garden he built.

Different from the Qin family's low profile, Hartung Garden is the largest private garden in the magic capital. There used to be mountains and rocks, ponds, pavilions, exotic flowers and plants, a radius of 20 hectares, 26 scenic spots, everywhere like a fairyland.

Hartung was born in Baghdad in 1851. His father was a Jew and engaged in business. Hartung moved to Mumbai, India with his father at the age of 5, and soon after his discord with his brother, he wandered to Hong Kong to earn a living, and joined the Sassoon Sr. Hong Kong branch as a junior clerk.

In 1873, he was transferred to the old Sassoon branch in the magic capital as a clerk (the doorman of the communication room). At that time, he was shy in his pocket, and his entire family property was only 6 yuan, so he could only live in a shed with the Chinese handymen hired by the foreign company, but with his clever head and hard work, he could earn 10 yuan a day in the communication room, and learned to speak fluent Chinese, so he was appreciated by the senior class of the foreign bank, transferred to the new Sassoon foreign company, promoted to the street, and then promoted to the tobacco warehouse keeper and rent collector, and in 1879 was further promoted to the senior class, co-organized and managed the real estate department.

During this period, he made a lot of money by selling tobacco and soil, and used this money to occupy some land one after another in the area of Nanjing Road with his speculative tricks, laying the foundation for him to operate real estate and make a fortune. In particular, after he became a director of the French Concession and a director of the Public Concession Engineering Department, because he had the opportunity to participate in the conspiracy to illegally expand the concession or build roads across the border, he could foresee the plan to widen the road and expand public facilities, so he relied on his privileges many times to forcibly buy Chinese land at low prices.

In 1901, he founded Hartung & Co., specializing in real estate speculation. After many years of operation. By the 30s of the 20th century, he became a well-known "real estate king" in the modern history of the magic capital.

Hartung's wife was Chinese and named "Luo Jialing".

In the spring of 1902, Luo Jialing went to Jinshan to burn incense, and unexpectedly met a monk from Wumu Mountain. Luo Muqi's name, then hired a mountain monk to design the Hartung Garden. Based on the Grand View Garden in Dream of Red Mansions, Wumu gradually expanded the Hartung Garden from 1902 to 1910, which took 8 years, causing a sensation in the magic capital, and was known as the "Grand View Garden on the Sea" and "Labyrinth on the Sea".

At that time, Feng Guozhang (1857-1919) was the president of the Republic of China, and in September of the sixth year of the Republic of China, he issued a "fourth-class Jiahe Medal" to Hatong. During his tenure as president, Xu Shichang (1855-1939) awarded Hartung a "Third-Class Wenhu Medal" and two "Second-Class Jiahe Medals".

A group of relics during the Republic of China, such as Cen Chunxuan, Li Yuanhong, Zhang Taiyan, Zhang Shizhao, Qi Xieyuan and other politicians and celebrities, have all come to Hartung Garden for sightseeing.

The Hartung couple are not literate, but they are still vassals and elegant, "respecting teachers and valuing education". In the Hartung Garden, Huayan University and Cangsheng Wise University were once established, and many children from poor families were admitted for free, and many literati and scholars such as Luo Zhenyu, Wang Guowei and Kang Youwei studied and taught here.

On June 19, 1931, Hartung died, leaving behind a huge estate worth 172 million silver dollars, including 460 acres of estate, 1,300 houses, and rare jewels worth millions of pounds. The Hartung couple have no children, but they have dozens of adopted children, with foreign adopted children with the surname Hartung and Chinese adopted children with the surname Luo.

On October 3, 1941, Luo Jialing died.

Hartung and Luo Jialing are husband and wife, one believes in Judaism, the other believes in Buddhism, the other is external, and the other is inward.

Subsequently, while many adopted children were fighting in the court, the Pacific War broke out, the Japanese army occupied the concession, and the property of Hartung Garden was taken over by the Japanese army. The gold and silver treasures hidden in the park were looted by the Japanese invaders.

Less than two years later, a fire broke out in Hartung Garden, burning the pavilion and building and destroying the bridge.

Qin Di did not intervene in this matter, because when the Japanese army entered the concession, he was busy robbing banks! He did not bother to rob the property of private capitalists.

When he returned from Tongbai Cave this time and heard that there was a fire in the Hartung Garden, he couldn't help but sigh: "The Hartung couple have been speculating and camping all their lives, and after enjoying the glory and wealth, what is left in the end? The land is so clean and white! Life is short, so why bother...... The dust and sand party is accidental, the butterflies are busy and infinitely affectionate, and they are also robbing the ashes of the passers-by, and they are vain to win and lose......"

After the Japanese entered the magic capital, it was not only Hartung Garden that was affected, but all the British, American, Dutch and other expatriates in Shanghai were imprisoned in concentration camps, and the German and Austrian nationals were confined to the area around Tilanqiao, less than one square mile.

At the same time, the Japanese army vigorously searched for and arrested the resistance forces, whether it was the Central Unification, the Military Unification, or the Great Red Party, as long as they did not obey the discipline, after being caught, they would be killed.