Chapter 73 People and People

The weather in different places is different: there are scenes during the day and night. If a person who is used to the dry spring in the north comes to Shanghai at the end of April, he will definitely become very depressed. Shanghai at the end of April and the beginning of May is rainy, and the rainy day will always make people more or less depressed.

It's midnight, and the street lights in Pudong are still on. French sycamores on both sides of the street have just been replanted with some sycamore trees that are only three or four years old because of the transplanting of the capital. At this time, people in Pudong, the emerging city, have not fallen asleep, or they still haven't woken up from their excitement. Today, when When they opened their eyes, the overwhelming news and extras were the news that the Guards sent troops to North Korea. This was the first time since the First Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese team had left the country to fight. Although it was not yet defeated, there were three extras in a day.

The news that the North Korean Legion of the Guards entered North Korea one hundred miles on the same day really excited the people. If it was in other cities, a lantern parade might be held that night. But in Pudong, an emerging city with street lights on every street, naturally there is no need to hold a lantern parade, but the parade is always held. OK, after the parade, posters and slogans can be seen everywhere in Pudong Street.

For such "people's activities", it seems that people have gone from strangeness to habit, and even become enjoying this kind of parade of 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of people. The atmosphere can be infected. In this parade, people can experience a long-lost sense of pride as a Chinese.

But even the most excited people will be tired. After the hour hand points to ten o'clock in the evening, the once noisy city unconsciously naturally enters another process... In the process of sleeping, only the patriotic posters sponsored by "private institutions" on the street tell the city. The hustle and bustle of the front.

When the patriotic people went to rest, on the road in Pudong, the tires of cars passed by the asphalt road day and night. Every day, a continuous stream of munitions were sent from Pudong, China's largest industrial base, to the port, and then transported to Yuxikou and Wuhan by cement ships and iron shell ships, and then forwarded by trains to the east. North battlefield.

On the news column on the street, unless there is a patriotic propaganda poster, there is also a poster of "police and civilian cooperation, anti-annihibitration and anti-spy". On the posters and street dramas, Han J. Spy are always the protagonists. In order to let the people have the idea that everyone is contributing to the war, they will not be far away from the war, and eventually there will be a kind of indifferent. Attitude.

Next to the cabinet on the street with the lights on, Mei Enping first looked at the poster posted on the wall that "Han J is by your side", and then moved a few steps. Inside the glass window was a guard soldier model wearing a steel helmet, and behind the model was a row of military portraits.

Standing in front of the glass window, Mei Enping saw his appearance under the helmet. In an instant, he, who was originally dressed in a suit, became a guard with live ammunition.

"China needs you!"

Looking at himself in the mirror and the sentence above, Mei Enping sighed helplessly, and then he looked into the distance again. Under the street lamp, a man in a top hat was coming towards him. He was getting closer and closer, but he still looked at himself in the glass window.

"Hey, are you going to be a soldier? With a gun, go to the front line, protect the country, and defend the king..."

"Then I'd better stay at home..."

Listening to the words behind him, Mei Enping swallowed his saliva intermittently, but this time his tone of voice had lost the past **.

"What's wrong with you?"

Shao Qingshan still noticed that he seemed to have some changes today.

"How to put it... The money is in place, and the people are in place, but... I always think something will happen!"

He wiped his sweaty neck and shook his head silently, as if to prove his worst guess.

"I'm afraid I'm not in a hurry to stop now?"

"There is no turning back arrow when opening the bow!"

He nodded. Of course he knew this. In fact, even if he stopped by himself now, I'm afraid... "Mr., do you think Fan Gaotou is..."

Shao Qingshan still has some doubts in his heart. How can people like Fan Gaotou be easily persuaded to participate in tonight's riots?

"Alas, you don't know, Fan Gaotou, he... If he doesn't do it, he won't last for a few days, and the Bureau of Investigation will attack him. The Bureau of Investigation will control some people and then attack some people. Fan Gaotou is not their person!"

As a member of the judicial committee of the Shanghai County Consultative Bureau, Mei Enping naturally knows some judicial opinions. Even in China, which claims to crack down on all gangster activities, gangs are still valuable, especially for such a "rogue" regime.

"Sir, when are we going..."

"Wait, let's go there after two days. If we go to his place at this time, it's easy to arouse the suspicion of others..."

With that, he turned his eyes to the distance. In a few days, Shanghai will have a thunderbolt on the ground. When the fire brigade and police are rushing there, Shanghai will... set off a revolution!

After more than 2,000 yuan was put in his pocket and then prepared some documents, Liu Xin quietly left the clinic through the back door. The next step is to go to the gun store opposite to buy weapons.

The vast majority of Chinese people do not like weapons, which may have something to do with thousands of years of education. In Chinese history, only two dynasties have banned the possession of weapons by the people. One is Mengyuan and the other is the Qing Dynasty. Both of them are motivated to prevent Han riots. After the construction of the ruling axe, whether the people are allowed to hold weapons, one To a certain extent, it is equivalent to the restoration of national rights and interests. The people have naturally opened up the gun ban, but correspondingly, some restrictions on surnames have been introduced.

Since the gun ban has been opened, gun shops have naturally emerged. The weapons sold in gun shops are mostly old-fashioned weapons, mainly millions of all kinds of old-fashioned weapons purchased by the Qing Dynasty.

There, Liu Xin gave a lot of problems for the salesperson: he asked for two easy-to-carry Brauning pistols, a hundred bullets, a double-barrel shotgun, and a shotgun filled with deer bullets, and also took a thin belt to make shoulder straps. The reason why he chose these weapons was purchased according to the requirements of the bureau, in order to leave some Evidence.

After buying weapons, he left the gun shop directly on his bicycle to rush to his friend's place before midnight.

"You know, it doesn't look obvious!"

Wei Kecheng looked at the elbow and said with a pistol.

"Now I'm a little worried..."

Liu Xin raised her swollen eyelids with difficulty and looked at her friend.

"Do you think we are really right to do this?"

Next is a silent silence. Wei Kecheng looked at his friend seriously, and after a while, he smiled.

"You said, for such an emperor, if we don't shoot, he will never listen to the voice of the people..."

As soon as he spoke, he showed the two slightly larger front teeth.

"So, we have to use the sound of gunfire to remind him of the people's demands."

"You..."

Looking at his friend, Liu Xin sighed. He took it in by himself. Is this really correct?

"I..."

At this time, the two were silent. Liu Xin knew that Wei Kecheng was more like an idealist than himself. At first, he had opposed the riot at this time, but in the end he was persuaded by Mei Enping. In the process, he played a role in adding fuel to the flames. Maybe he would... "What if we die? "?"

Facing this problem, Wei Kecheng was silent for a while, and then looked at his friend seriously and said.

"Revolution,... There will be no bloodshed in the revolution! We died for the future of this country!"

"Whether it is successful or not, you and I will make great contributions to the country!"

Liu Xin stared at his friend and said in a pun that the skills of the two were completely different!

"I think... it should be a great contribution to the compatriots of the whole country. Even if it fails, at least we can tell the emperor and the people that the voice of the Republic will never sink because of the imperial system!"

He picked up a Browning pistol from the table.

"In fact, I have always believed that every Chinese should not only understand the meaning of the republic, but also every Chinese, or at least a gun!"

"Why? ......"

"No gun!"

Wei Kecheng sighed sadly.

"The people are not against the tyrant!"

agreed, nodded and walked to his friend.

"Yes, but if everyone knows the Republic, do you still need weapons?"

"If that's the case, it's even more necessary. Only when the people have weapons can they resist the readers who may usurp power! ...I'm a republican,"

Speaking of this, Wei Kecheng suddenly stopped loading the shotgun, and his expression became a little heavy.

"When I was studying in the United States, I have been to some countries in South America, so although I believe in the republic, I also know that the republic is not a panacea. Sometimes political party reading is more deceptive than the emperor's reading, because it will pretend to borrow history..."

After loading the bullet for the shotgun, Wei Kecheng suddenly fell silent and said.

"I hope that in the future, if China really establishes a republic, the last thing I want to see will never happen here..."

"It definitely won't!"

Liu Xin said this sentence with full confidence. It is impossible for China to establish a republic. Only the shield and sword of the empire exist. They will ensure that the country will never be subverted by any force. Whether it is the empire or the republic, the current empire is elected by the people and given by the people. As a Chinese, they must It is necessary to perform its duty to defend the country as the shield and sword of the empire.

Put the double-tube shotgun produced by Jiangnan Manufacturing Factory on the table. Wei Kecheng looked out of the window and muttered a few words on his lips.

"Revolution!"

"There is no doubt that this will be a riot!"

In the palace in the center of Nanjing, Zhang Jing looked at His Majesty sitting behind the table and reported softly.

"A rebellion was planned by myself and carried out with the cooperation of the Bureau of Investigation!"

When he said this, Zhang Jing admired Zha Zhiqing's ruthlessness. In order to completely sweep away those republican elements, he did not hesitate to borrow himself to launch a rebellion in Shanghai. In this way, he had sufficient reasons to arrest all the republican elements in the country.

I'm afraid that the prison in the northwest will not be enough!

At this time, Zhang Jing is lamenting the size of the prison. How many people will the investigation bureau arrest this time, one thousand? Two thousand? At least 3,000 people will be arrested, and who else will blame the Bureau? No one will sympathize with the enemy, and no one will sympathize with Han Yi. In the end, under the trial of the court, those republicans will become sinners of China and even become the public enemies of the whole nation.

What will Zha Zhiqing and his investigation bureau get?

Facing Zha Zhiqing's report, Chen Moran didn't say anything, just half-closed his eyes.

Hundreds of schools of thought contend, leading snakes out of the hole!

Somehow, such an idea came up in his mind. In the past eleven months, Chinese public opinion has been unprecedentedly liberalized. Anyone can find their views in the newspaper. It is the free expression of this view that makes Cha Zhiqing have built a "potential internal enemy" file, and now he It is to use a rebellion to fundamentally wipe out those people.

Although he didn't want to see that scene in his heart, he... raised his head and Chen Moran looked at Zhang Jing in front of him.

"Are the Russians ready to do it?"

At this time, he would rather choose to ignore, perhaps ignore, and turning a blind eye is the best choice. People will always make beneficial choices. At this time, Chen Moran is no exception.

Your Majesty's question stunned Zhang Jing, and then he understood the reason why His Majesty asked this question. His Majesty did not want to participate in this matter, in other words. He doesn't even want to know that things like this are still done by these people. As for Your Majesty... He is always right and stay away from any conspiracy.

"Your Majesty, the Russian army has been mobilized frequently in the coastal area recently. We have reason to believe that the Russian army is likely to launch an attack on North Korea in the near future..."

Looking up at His Majesty, Zhang Jing then added.

"Now it is said that 100,000 people have been recruited again in China. In addition to supplementing the losses of troops, three new preparatory divisions have been formed. According to analysis, the human resources have been exhausted. Although its industrial production has not been affected, its agricultural production has been recruited to join the army due to a large amount of labor, resulting in this year's farmland. So far, about 70% of the arable land has not been transplanted. Because the transplanting period has been delayed, the output of rice will be reduced by 30% to 40% this year..."

When Zhang Jing reported the intelligence situation of the Japanese, Chen Moran just nodded. He liked to hear the news that Japanese had suffered such a blow. Even every time he saw the report of annihsmation, he would always have a pleasure of revenge in Nanjing, that is, in this city, in another time and space, hundreds of thousands of compatriots suffered by the Japanese army. Massacre, and now I'm just taking back some interest.

If we can completely anniperate the main force of the Manchurian army, 300,000 people... This can be regarded as a return, but he can't. This war can play a weakened Russia, but it can't play a seriously weakened Japanese version. China also needs the Japanese version to win the Japanese version. The war appeared in front of the United States as a victor. Only in this way can China maximize its interests and use the technology and funds of the United States to quickly modernize the country.

"What about the navy?"

Thinking of this, Chen Moran asked.

"Your Majesty, the joint fleet is still training in the town bay, and there is no movement now!"

"Town Bay..."

Whispering this noun, Chen Moran knew that after he repaired the warship, the joint fleet went to the town bay on the west coast of North Korea, where he trained hard and waited to meet the Second Pacific Fleet to fight the Russians. The tactics were the seven-stage battle formulated by Zhenzhi Akiyama, along the narrow Japanese sea, from the horse. A total of seven attacks were prepared from the Strait to Vladivostok.

God bless, the navy must not make any changes!

A big reason why I pray so much in my heart is that I must win the naval battle. Only when I win the naval battle, China is useful for Russia and the United States. Otherwise, China is just a pawn that can be abandoned at any time.

"Pay attention to collecting information from the Japanese navy. I don't want their fleet to appear in Sandu Australia. Do you understand?"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

When nodding in response, Zhang Jing carefully raised a question.

"Your Majesty, if the Russian army crosses the Tumen River, it is bound to carry out a comprehensive military reconnaissance of the whole North Korea. If it will definitely threaten the existence of the Japanese fleet in Zhenhai Bay. If the Japanese joint fleet hidden in Zhenhai Bay is detected by the Russian army, will it affect the Japanese navy's decisive battle against the Russian navy?"

Zhang Jing, as the director of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, certainly knows His Majesty's thoughts in this war. On land, whether he is Russia wins or wins, it has nothing to do with China. For China, it is an enemy and a pawn, and Russia is also a pawn.

Taking advantage of the irreconcilable war contradictions between the two countries to maximize the benefits for China is the fundamental starting point for China's involvement in this war, but the victory or defeat of the land war between the two countries may not matter, but the navy must defeat the Russian fleet. Your Majesty has expressed this opinion many times, but according to the current situation Zhan, if the Russian army is approaching, the joint fleet will move in case of hidden needs.

"As long as they want to win this battle, they will definitely stay in the town bay!"

Chen Moran affirmed with an almost arbitrary word that he did not know that there was such a possibility, but at this time, he would rather believe that he would never make any difference. They were willing to take this risk. All the plans made by Akiyama Zhenzhi revolved around the decisive battle against the horse. In this case, how did they It may take the risk of moving and re-making the battle plan.

"I hope so!"

waving his hand, Chen Moran motioned Zhang Jing to leave his office. When he was about to leave, Chen Moran ordered again.

"Pay attention to the movement of the Japanese navy. If... must be notified to the Admiralty as soon as possible, the Intelligence Agency must fully cooperate with the Naval Intelligence Service, and must ensure that... ensure that we know the movement of the Japanese navy?"

Zhenhai Bay, with half-closed eyes, Chen Moran repeatedly muttered this noun in the bottom of his heart, hoping that Dongxiang could stay in Zhenhai Bay!

(to be continued)