Chapter 342 - Clearing the Japanese Concession in Tianjin
"It's a pity that we have an alliance with Yueben, and if you Huaxia declares war on Yue, we won't be able to maintain neutrality." The news of Tao Deman from Zhou Bai gave Meng Xiang a basin of cold water.
The Germans valued the copycat companies behind the Vanguard Army, not the Vanguard Army. In their eyes, without the support of the copycat company, the seemingly powerful vanguard army could not afford those sophisticated equipment only by relying on backward Huaxia. As for the finances of the Vanguard Army, all countries are studying it, and their opinions are also unanimous.
A contingent armed with arms is too unstable to collapse in the event of a supply cut off and a financial collapse. It is risky to hope for such a team. Even if the Germans had begun to attach importance to relations with the vanguard army, they would not make a bad deal with the people who could contain a large number of Soviet and Russian troops for this reason.
In general, the vanguard army is still too weak, and the Chinese are too weak.
Zhou Bai still disagrees with declaring war now, "When war is not declared, the Germans can pretend not to see and continue to send supplies to us." But once war is declared, even if the Germans remain neutral now, I am afraid that they will not be able to send us some sensitive supplies. With the support of copycat companies, the supply of weapons and ammunition can be guaranteed, but other civilian equipment, some industrial-based machines, etc., may also be seized by Britain and the United States and other countries under various pretexts. Therefore, declaring war at this time has many disadvantages and few advantages. ”
Meng Xiang was silent, it seemed that he was a little flustered by the impact of the successive victories. China's weakness is not only the military, but also the weakness of its economic foundation makes it impossible for China to even have the qualifications to declare war at this time. In half a year, World War II is about to begin. If China declares war at this time, even if the Germans remain neutral now, then the German-Italian alliance will declare war on China together. Huaxia was prematurely involved in the division of forces in World War II, and it did not reap much benefit.
Although there are cottages and umbrellas in the trade, in the next economic plan, Huaxia will take advantage of the beginning of World War II to export aggressively and take advantage of the opportunity to develop. If war is declared, these conveniences will be gone.
"Alas! Declaring war is a central matter. We just tried our best. At this time, he did not declare war and said that he was himself. Zhou Bai sighed.
"Declaring war represents an attitude of resistance in a country, and one day, we will shout it out with dignity!" Meng Xiang said calmly, but the fingers that had been pinched in his fist turned white.
"You people are rice buckets! With so many newspapers and so much propaganda, haven't the common people seen that the concessions in Yucheng and Hankou have been replaced? Old Jiang yelled at Chen Lifu angrily.
Lao Chiang did recover the concessions of Hankou and Yucheng in the first two years of the war. It's just that there was no declaration of war, and there was no official declaration. Yucheng Wangjiatuo said that the concession expired in 31 years. Liu Xiang had already sent the military and police to intervene, and in 37 years, Lao Jiang took over.
Similarly, the Hankou Concession said that as soon as the war began, the overseas Chinese were evacuated early, lest they become hostages of the Central Army. Originally, after the Hankou Concession was taken over, the original time and space officially announced the encouragement of the people on the first anniversary of the Battle of Songhu on August 13. Although soon after, he reinstated the concession, but after all, the Fourth Special Zone can be regarded as a hard work of the old Jiang Zhengaxe. But at this time and space, because of the successive victories of the vanguard army, Lao Jiang did not have much crisis in Wuhan for the time being, but had more thoughts of negotiating with Yue himself to restore the original situation. The proclamation was not sent either.
As a result, Lao Chiang, who had always had the illusion of negotiating with Yue himself, and did not officially announce that he had only sent the police to control the two concessions, people still praised the prestige of the vanguard army directly entering the Tianjin concession. Even if it was known, there was no refutation.
The people also have a lot of complaints about the political axe that has not yet declared war. They don't know the fragility of China's economy, and they don't know that after China declared war, it was still a reading war, and without foreign aid, the external conditions were even worse than now. They only know that if a person is beaten, even if it is not good to fight back, at least he will be a hero. Those who beg for mercy and are silently bullied are soft eggs.
In the eyes of the people, compared with the vanguard army's rapid progress and repeated reconquest of lost ground, Lao Jiang's bald head has a tendency to soften at this time. This is also one of the reasons why Lao Jiang intervened in Tianjin. But in the end, those puppet armies were not used, and the vanguard army still took the lead. Without the support of the army, nothing else is useful. Lao Jiang also rarely did not pursue this matter, at this time the vanguard army was famous, and it was a big trouble, but he planned to pick the fruit and take care of his own losses.
However, the pen could not be left behind, so the central political axe for the safety of the people, step by step pressed against Yue Kou, and finally forced Yue Kou to retreat in fear of the passage appeared from time to time in various newspapers. Even some of the big newspapers had to admit that the peaceful recovery of Tianjin had something to do with the negotiations of the central government, although the vanguard army was the main one.
The news of the central government's repossession of the Hankou and Yucheng concessions has also spread, and naturally some people have arranged various related matters for the formal repossession, which proves that the central government has already officially taken back the political axe. However, the attention of the common people was still focused on the recovery of the Tianjin concession by the vanguard army.
Pioneer Radio broadcast the entire repossession live.
He himself has already known from the hard attitude of the vanguard army several times that it is not very safe for overseas Chinese here. They were evacuated early and dispersed to the British and French concessions, leaving only a few who refused to leave the concessions. The Vanguard was unceremonious, took them all into custody, and began to set up special courts for public trials. Those who say that some of their own property belong to them are kept, and those who have been forcibly seized are deprived of them under the complaint of the bitter master.
Under the arrangement intentionally or unintentionally, except for a few old, weak, sick and disabled, everyone else said that they were guilty anyway, and they were all detained pending disposal.
"Sir, help!" A woman suddenly pounced on Huo Mingzhen's feet from the crowd on the side of the street, hugged his thighs and didn't let go.
"You get up and talk first!" What's more, in front of everyone's eyes, Huo Ming couldn't help but blush a little.
Lin Changshun, a veteran soldier next to him, smiled and said, "I said this girl, in front of the public, you don't look like a woman from a good family?" If there is any grievance, our vanguard army can call the shots for you, but you have to get up and make your words clear! ”
The woman, who looked no more than a teenager, looked at Lin Changshun with tears in her eyes, and then looked back at the place where she ran out. Huo Mingzhen looked along, and just saw a bald head with a meaty face looking over here, and saw several people in the vanguard looking over, so he scolded and walked away.
When she saw the man walk away, the woman seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and said: "The poor girl Lin Cuixia, fifteen years old, has been sold into the hands of the surname Lin since she was six years old, and Chengren is fourteen years old. Today, I heard that your army took over the camp defense, and came to ask for help under the pretext of burning incense. ”
As he spoke, he opened his long sleeves in public, revealing his thin arm with scars.
Huo Mingzhen and Lin Changshun glanced at each other, coughed dryly, and said, "We will establish a civil court later, and you can go there and talk to them when the time comes." ”
"Don't go, if you go, they'll kill me. I don't want to sue, I want to be good! Lin Cuixia still hugged Huo Mingzhen's thigh and cried.
"Battalion commander, it's really not good, just leave her first!" Lin Changshun couldn't help but persuade beside him.
"We are soldiers, and when it comes to women, there will be a lot of rumors and rumors!" Huo Mingzhen looked at the crowd of people who were muttering quietly around him, and sighed, "I can only wait for those women's army to come!" ”
When he first saw these women's soldiers, he still sneered a little, why did he want these women to come up when he was a soldier. Unexpectedly, at this time, you need to count on those women's army.
"There are a lot of women, and it's really troublesome for a group of big men to deal with it. Fortunately, Don reminded me in time! Meng Xiang was a little embarrassed, he actually ignored this. In later generations, when they cleaned up regularly, there were still female policemen. Fortunately, Pharmacist Tang reminded him in time, so that there would not be a lot of lace news in major newspapers.
When Beiping was recovered, there were dozens of female policemen in the puppet regime who had nowhere to arrange. After singled out a few female officials with a bad reputation and aided in abuse, the rest were kept for the time being. This operation on the Tianjin concession was reminded by Tang Yaoshi, and they came with them.
In this era, the inconvenience of women has made there also female policemen in Tianjin. Although the central political axe began to try out female policemen in 31 years, only Shanghai has carried out it well, and there are ten or eight female policemen in other places, and they have not formed a scale. The female policemen in Beiping were in line with international standards because of the early integration of the Beiyang political axe, but there were still more people, and this time more than 50 people came. Together with the seven female policemen who are familiar with the local situation in Tianjin, they formed the women's army team that entered the concession together this time. Without the help of these policewomen, it would be really difficult to deal with so many police officers.
Tianjin's underworld was mixed, and the vanguard army pressed in, directly applying the methods of the special zone, and began to rectify.
The staff of the hospital cleaned them up one by one. However, all coercive acts are exempted, and involuntary persons are dealt with according to their personal wishes. Those who forced good people to become prostitutes were all tried and dealt with, and more than 30 extremely bad people were shot in a row.
All drug-related drugs were closed, and opium drugs were handed over to hellfire, which was getting bigger and bigger, to be dealt with abroad. With regard to drugs, the vanguard has always been very resolute and will not be soft-hearted.
In the first three days of stationing in the Yueben Concession, the vanguard army tried and shot more than 300 people in one go, and at once suppressed many of the three sects and nine streams of the Tianjin Wei.