Chapter 297: Concentration Camp
In addition to prisons, there are 20 concentration camps in the city.
A number of well-known foreign businessmen, such as the manager of the Chinese office of Dodge Motors, the president of the Modu Stock Exchange, Heymer, the manager of Citibank Modo, and the manager of the Suconi Vacuum Oil Company, were all imprisoned in the Daqiao concentration camp.
Powell, an American, who served as a reporter and editor-in-chief of the Miller's Review, was also arrested by the Japanese army for exposing Japanese crimes.
On Powell's first day in the camp, the cell was packed. Luckily, a friend who recognized him pulled him somewhere. Friends told him that a North Korean had just died the night before where he was standing. The Japanese knife pierced the North Korean leg and bled incessantly, and the North Korean died of sepsis.
The camp at that time had 15 cells. One side can be accessed, and a fence is made of sticks with a diameter of 6 inches. Powell was in cell No. 5, counting the sticks every day. They sit cross-legged during the day and cannot rest, and their heads must be lowered and facing in the direction of Tokyo. Sometimes forced to kneel for hours. You can be woken up at any time at night. If someone dares to resist, beatings and abuse are commonplace.
Renault, the captain of the USS Wick, recalled that a beautiful young Russian woman who was seven months pregnant was found by guards to hide a note. The Japanese guards were furious and ordered all the people in the cells, including the young women, to strip naked and stand on the patio. After standing in the cold wind for more than half an hour, the Japanese military police loudly laughed at the Russian woman, who stood with her head held high with an expressionless face. Soon after, she suddenly disappeared. No one knows how she ended.
Foreign detainees could not stand the food in the camps, so they traded their own rice with the Chinese children in their cells in exchange for daily help to catch lice in their clothes. From time to time, relatives and friends outside the camp would send food to the expatriates in the camp, but only the sandwich barely reached the recipient, and the other canned meat and other food went into the stomachs of the Japanese guards.
Suffering is much more than that. The cells were infested with untold lice and pests, lying barefoot on the cold floor every day with their feet frozen purple, most of the prisoners were sick, a few of them dying, and everyone could get epidemics, such as typhus, which were once contagious in concentration camps......
Every day and night, hapless Chinese are taken to the interrogation room to endure all kinds of torture. The inmates downstairs could hear their screams and moans. Torture includes "electrotherapy", in which wires are attached to hands and feet, and "hydrotherapy", in which buckets of water are poured into the nostrils of prisoners until their lungs are almost ruptured, and beatings and nail pulling.
A Chinese man was brought in with his 3-year-old son. The little boy cried all night, and the entire Bridge prison could hear it. A few days later, they were gone.
There was a Chinese who smoked, was beaten into meatloaf by guards, could not stand up for more than a week, and suffered from beriberi. The Japanese doctor injected him with an unknown drug, and he died soon after.
Another Chinese was found hiding money, and Japanese guards dragged him to the corridor and hit him in the face with a wooden stick. 1、2、3......
The foreigners in the concentration camp silently counted in their hearts, hit the 85th stick, and the shouting stopped.
In the concentration camp, there was calm for a moment.
Later, Italy, Japan's former "ally", also angered Japan by turning to Britain and the United States due to Mussolini's surrender. In Mordo, the Italians were also arrested and imprisoned in an Italian concentration camp on the Robegen Road.
Fellow refugees of different nationalities struggled in humiliation under the bayonets, high walls and barbed wire of the Japanese army.
History is silent, falling into the long river of memories of the city, waiting to be salvaged.
Qin Di's ears could hear the wind and grass within ten miles of his surroundings, and he listened to the wails of those people every day, and gradually he couldn't bear it!
Does he need to save people alone?
There are too many people being imprisoned, and if you force yourself to ask for help, it will inevitably cause a change in the situation, which is not in line with the plan of Phoenix Nirvana!
So he and Yan Xue simply left the magic capital and went to Henan to help the people affected by the disaster.
From the summer of 1941 to the spring of 1943, there was a great famine in Henan.
Due to the war of the Japanese invasion, the embankment of Huayuankou was broken, forming a "yellow flood area" that passed through 44 counties in Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. Every year during the flood season, the yellow water will flow back and back, flooding the farmland, and after the flood, the locust plague returns, the surface of the land is abrupt and convex, and the sand dunes are piled up everywhere, making it impossible to cultivate, causing serious damage to local agriculture.
A drought at the end of 1941 followed by rain until the spring of 1943, which led to widespread crop losses and a lack of harvest. In the autumn of 1942, a severe locust plague occurred, resulting in a failed grain harvest.
At the Xi'an Military Conference in September 1942, the local garrison in Henan and the Henan provincial government provided Mr. Qing with two conflicting reports on the disaster, which led Mr. Qing to underestimate the severity of the disaster.
The Great Famine spread throughout 110 counties across the province, and countless people died of starvation, disease, pickpocketing, and Japanese bombing. "The east of Zhengzhou on the Longhai line has been occupied, and it is west of Luoyang that can be opened to traffic. Those who fled by train accounted for up to 1/3 of the total number of people. At that time, the number of trains was very limited, the carrying efficiency was very low, and most of the trains were transporting goods, and refugees were sitting on top of the goods, and the speed of the trains at that time was only about 30 kilometers per hour, and the time of the stop was estimated to take two days from Luoyang to Sanmenxia. Only those with slightly better family backgrounds could take the train, and most of them were on foot, starving all over the wilderness along the way, and the scene of cannibalism was unbearable.
After receiving information about the disaster in Henan, the ruling Nationalist Government at that time also took a series of measures to reduce the damage caused by the disaster to the people of Henan. The government has disbursed emergency relief on three occasions, but it has been a drop in the bucket for the large number of victims.
To this end, Qin Di summoned the people of the Qin Clan's grain store and mobilized a batch of grain for disaster relief.
However, because of the invasion of the Japanese army, Qin's grain store did not have much grain reserves in Henan, so he could only take out the 100,000 tons of grain collected in the Naxu gourd and set up porridge sheds on the way to the disaster victims.
Henan people mainly fled to Shaanxi, because they could go to Sichuan and Gansu to the west, far away from the war zone, and 3 million Henan victims poured into Shaanxi, which can be said to be the largest spontaneous migration process in China's modern history.
At that time, there was a large amount of land in the west, but the population was very small, and the population of the whole Shaanxi was only 10 million.
This great migration promoted the development of land in the west and brought the mature agricultural technology from the east to the west.
The contribution made by the Qin Clan's grain bank in this disaster relief did not bring more prestige to the Qin family, because Qin Di asked the people who gave porridge not to use banners, not to tell their origins, and not to sell their false names, as long as they silently gave soup soup! If it was too late to cook porridge, then each person would be given 5 catties of grain!
The common people are confused, and they can only thank God for opening their eyes, and a great good man came forward to help, no matter who he is, he is sent by God!
"Thank you to the Buddha, thank you to Guanyin Bodhisattva, save the suffering and save the ......"
"Thank Allah, Allah be with us......"
"Taishang Laojun has appeared......"
And the reason why Qin Di did this was because he robbed the bank's deposits, and if he used it to sell his reputation again, he would be thundered by the sky!
However, this kind of large-scale rescue is impossible to hide from people with intentions, whether it is Mr. Qing or Baota Mountain, they all understand the Qin family's contribution to disaster relief, but ordinary people don't know it.
For this reason, someone in Baota Mountain wrote an article and published it in the "Xinhua Daily", which quoted a poem: "The humble person does not dare to forget the country, and the matter must still be closed." The gods of heaven and earth support the temple society, and take a closer look at the lights in the middle of the night. ”
It means that the Qin family is generous in saving the people and has contributed to the community, but the coffin has not yet been decided, and Qin Dashao is biased to the left and right, how to evaluate it, it's hard to say!
Mr. Qing also did not instruct the media to praise Qin Di, because this disaster was unexpected and caused so much damage, and it was too late to cover it up, so how could it be hyped up?
However, he still awarded Qin Di a "Qingyun Medal" in recognition of his contributions.
Needless to say, this medal is also recorded and has become one of the crimes of Qin Di's ass being on the right!