Chapter 4: New Celebrities (Part I)
2.4 New Celebrity (Part I)
For a time, Huang Haoran became the most popular figure in the whole country in April 1932, and even some progressive young women published articles in newspapers, saying that they wanted to inspire and explore the rest of their life paths with this "anti-Japanese hero". Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Snowflakes of letters expressing their admiration for the Xuzhou military prison paralyzed the city's postal system, forcing the city government to pull out a truck every day to deliver letters to the prison.
Huang Haoran's status in prison became more admirable, and a large number of jailers were pulled by Huang Haoran to help open and reply to letters, and Huang Haoran was so sore that his wrists were weak just by signing.
There were actually a few bold jailers who replied to these fanatical "fans" in the name of Huang Haoran.
Soon one of these replies appeared in the newspaper, and people began to sigh that Huang Haoran, the "anti-Japanese hero", still has such an optimistic spirit and longing for love in prison!
The day after the letter was published, people began to besiege Xuzhou Prison, especially young female students, and the staff of Xuzhou Prison rushed in from the surging crowd with difficulty, leaving a few claw marks on their faces.
For these accomplices in the persecution of "anti-Japanese heroes", of course, the female students did not have a good temper, so sharp nails became a weapon of attack!
The whole of Xuzhou, even the whole of Jiangsu, and the whole of East China have become a pot of porridge because of Huang Haoran!
The situation was out of control, and the Nanjing government soon couldn't sit still.
The head of the government's propaganda department immediately turned into an ant on a hot pot, the phone on the desk rang non-stop, and bigwigs at all levels took turns to ask for details.
The higher-ups of the Propaganda Department mobilized the manpower and material resources of the masses to conduct an investigation at full speed, and found that there was indeed such a "controversial figure" detained in the prison in Xuzhou. The Judge Advocate General's Office has not yet come up with a verdict.
Looking at the newspapers on the market again, most of the newspapers that first published news about Huang Haoran were some tabloids that were not in the stream, and the locations were also distributed from all over the world.
Just look at these names like "Violet Daily" to know that it won't be a serious newspaper, but the article says that Huang Haoran's matter has a nose and eyes, as if they saw it with their own eyes!
It's also strange, how can this tabloid reporter care about current affairs, and how do they know these inside stories?
However, the other party is a tabloid and has the advantage of being a tabloid, and if you send some police to run away, you can close a dozen or twenty of them, and it will not arouse public anger.
Now that I think about it carefully, most of the mainstream newspapers were overly angry by the Nanjing government's groveling attitude toward Japan, and anyway, everyone has poured a lot of dirty water on the Nanjing government these days.
As a result, those literati who were already a little dry and weak saw such "fresh materials" and immediately added fuel to the fire, and these pushers worked together to finally create this whirlpool of public opinion!
The agents of the Central Union who raided the newspaper reported that the small newspapers all said that the manuscript came from the manuscript by mail, and the clue was broken.
The motive for these tabloids to publish this article is also because the recent mainstream newspapers have been scolding Nanjing, causing the sales of tabloids like theirs, which mainly write about wind and moon gossip, to plummet.
When I was worried about my livelihood, I happened to have such a manuscript with some gossip and legends in my hand, so I rushed to publish it, wanting to take advantage of the whirlpool of public opinion to get a piece of the pie.
As a result, now even the place where I settled down has been lost.
The Central Union also said that it had seized a letter that had just been sent to these newspapers, and judging from the handwriting, it was supposed to be the same person as the previous article.
However, due to the storm caused by the previous article, several newspapers were scared and did not dare to publish it!
The Minister of Propaganda scolded these fools who wanted money and didn't want their lives to cause such a big trouble to themselves! On the one hand, he hurriedly asked his subordinates to compile the investigation into a report, and together with the original manuscript sent by mail, it was distributed to the desks of each boss.
Finally handed over the errand!
General Zhang Zhizhong, who was busy with the Songhu war in Shanghai, saw the report in the newspaper and quickly found the gendarmerie of the 19th Route Army that had "captured" Huang Haoran at that time, and the results confirmed that the source of the Japanese army's military intelligence was Huang Haoran, the "hot person" in the newspaper.
General Zhang felt that it was his negligence that caused Huang Haoran to suffer such an unjustified beating, so he immediately wrote a "petition" to guarantee Huang Haoran and sent it to the Ministry of National Defense and the Military Justice Department in Nanjing.
When General Zhang's report arrived in Nanjing, the dignitaries in the government began to stare at each other!
Originally, he planned to find a few "witnesses" to charge Huang Haoran with a crime and plug the mouths of these people in the press, but as soon as this "petition" of General Zhang arrived, the plan to plant false accusations was immediately ruined!
It seems that this is really the time to catch an "anti-Japanese hero" back! It's still the kind that can cause trouble!
After the highest authorities saw General Zhang's "petition", they angrily dropped the teacup in their hands and scolded the Military Judge Advocate General's Office and the Propaganda Department for being "confused" in his Zhejiang-flavored official dialect!
Such a ready-made "anti-Japanese hero" did not know how to use it to give positive propaganda to the government, and now he is still being used by the democratic parties as a "strong evidence" to attack the Nanjing government!
How can this not make the highest authorities angry!
In the living room on the first floor of the Luoyang Mansion, Mr. Jiang Baili, a celebrity in front of the highest authorities, was leaning on the sofa and drinking tea.
After the outbreak of the Songhu War, because Nanjing was too close to Shanghai, the highest authorities decided to move the government departments of Nanjing to the official residence in Luoyang, which was regarded as the "accompanying capital" of the Nanjing government at that time.
Now the upstairs and downstairs departments are busy in order to deal with the aftermath of the Songhu war, and only he, Jiang Baili, is a "guest secretary" who has no real power in his idle post.
Jiang Baili was indifferent by nature, but his military cultivation in China at that time can be said to be unsurpassed, Jiang Baili served as the principal of the Baoding Military Academy, and also went to Germany for further study, so he has a lot of weight in the eyes of the highest authorities!
Especially in terms of military theory, the highest authorities have always regarded Jiang Baili as an authority in the Nanjing army!
The order to mobilize Zhang Zhizhong's Fifth Army and Chen Cheng's Eighteenth Army to Shanghai to participate in the war in this Songhu War was from Jiang Baili's suggestion.
A clerk from the Propaganda Department walked into the living room quickly, stood up and saluted, and handed Jiang Baili a document, Jiang Baili took it casually and threw it on the sofa beside him, nodded and signaled that he accepted it.
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