Do you remember Mr. Lu in the history of the demise of romanticism?
The role of Mr. Lu, who frequently said "drink tea" in tense moments of quarrel, was the boss of the Green Gang in Shanghai after the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937:
Du Yuesheng
On July 17, 1937, after the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident, Chiang Kai-shek delivered a speech at Lushan. He said: "Since we are a weak country, if we come to the last moment, we will only fight for the life of the whole nation in order to survive the country." ”
Du Yuesheng, the leader of the Green Gang, initiated the Shanghai Anti-Enemy Rescue Association from all walks of life and personally served as the chairman of the fundraising committee. In the remainder of the month alone, it raised 1.5 million yuan to save the country.
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He (Du Yuesheng) donated too much money. Those money, that is, today let me invite the famous actors of the whole Chinese Beijing opera, Mei Lanfang and Cheng Yanqiu, to perform Beijing opera for three days, it will not be a problem.
—— Yang Lin
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Yang Lin's father, Yang Guanbei, was a close associate of Du Yuesheng, and in order to raise donations, Du Yuesheng deliberately let Yang Guanbei open a bank. Yang Lin: "After the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Shanghai, eighty of the hundred guilds in shanghai were the chairman of the board. This has monthly money, and the chairman of the board of directors has to send money every month. When people need it, he sends money. ”
Du Yuesheng and his wife
Shanghai Shanghai
Shanghai, with a population of more than three million at that time, was a public concession with a population of one million, which used to be the British Concession and the American Concession; the French Concession had a population of one million, and it was directly subordinate to the Paris authorities; and around these two foreigner areas was the Chinese-controlled Chinese border.
There was a flood of refugees in Shanghai, and thousands of refugees crowded into the concession from all directions. They entered the public concession via the Waibaidu Bridge on the Suzhou Creek.
—— Chen Yixin
The Shanghai Concession during the war
On August 14, war broke out
The American writer Lana Mitte wrote in the book: Chiang Kai-shek threw 600,000 troops in Shanghai in one breath, showing the world the government's determination to resist Japan.
"In the bloody battle of Songhu in March, the illusion of the Japanese warlord's demise in March passed away like light smoke."
On the afternoon of August 13th, our whole family stood on the balcony on the third floor. More than a hundred Japanese planes took turns dive and bombed our Yangpu District, Nancheng District, and Zhabei District...
After the outbreak of war, American expatriates boarded the USS Hoover from the Bund docks to San Francisco. Ordinary Shanghai citizens, on the other hand, could only flock to the concession, which was isolated from the war. There were too many people fleeing, and people lined up at the entrance to the concession.
Refugees fled to the Shanghai Concession
How many people are there? Newspapers at the time were 1.3 million people entering the city and 700,000 refugees entering the concession.
By the end of October, both the Chinese and Japanese armies were exhausted, but the League of Nations conference in Geneva was imminent, and in order to win the sympathy of the international community, Chiang Kai-shek decided to withdraw his troops. On November 12, 1937, Yu Hongjun, the mayor of Shanghai, issued a "Letter to the Citizens", declaring the fall of Shanghai. This was the Japanese entry ceremony held on the Bund in Shanghai. On the faces of these Japanese troops who had forcibly pulled to welcome them, there was only anger, humiliation and confusion.
The ostensible controllers of the concessions were Western politicians and capitalists, but the shanghai youth gang's ability could not be underestimated, especially among the low-level people, and their influence was enormous.
French Concession tycoons Jin Jinrong and Du Yuesheng, they did a little good. During the War of Resistance, such a big "big world" was open to him, and refugees lived in it. Live inside, eat two steamed buns, a bowl of porridge, no!
—— Xiong Zhilin
The concession became an isolated island in the center of Shanghai under japanese occupation.
The Suzhou Creek is separated by water and a line, with heaven on one side and hell on the other.
—— Reporter Tao Juyin
On March 30, 1940, the Wang puppet regime was established in Nanjing
Zhou Xinfang sang "The Last Hate of the Ming Dynasty", and he scolded the slaves of the subjugated country:
Son, do you know you're guilty?! You live in China, you are a Chinese, you are guilty! What's the worst? The destruction of the country is the most tragic! Don't forget, child, take revenge.
Hiratsu is in danger! North China is in danger! The Chinese nation is in danger!
After the "918 Incident" in 1931, Peiping was in danger. Sun Xiaoju's father, Sun Lin, was an instructor in the Twenty-ninth Army, and his father was stationed in Nanyuan at the time of the "July 7 Incident".
He (Sun Lin) was a tactical instructor of the Twenty-ninth Army, and he was stationed in Nanyuan. He came back once a week. At that time, because our family was pointing to my father's salary, it was his salary to support this big son.
—— Sun Xiaoju
The day after the Lugou Bridge incident, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sent a telegram to the whole country in the cave dwellings in northern Shaanxi: "Pingjin is in danger! North China is in danger! The Chinese nation is in danger! ”
Wokou provoked at the Lugou Bridge and was determined to fight, but what time? This is an existential juncture
—— Chiang Kai-shek
They had no other weapons, just a few grenades pinned to their belts, and then they took a large knife and inserted it obliquely on this side, which was very suitable for him to pull out and cut.
- He Wei
On July 27, 1937, Sun Lin, who was then an instructor in the Twenty-ninth Army, broke through the siege and fled home.
My dad came back in a hurry. When I came back, my dad was very embarrassed, and the clothes were burned with holes. But the next morning, it sounded as if there was a knock at the door at dawn. My mom said, "You hurry up and leave, and we'll find you later." "My dad left first, from Tianjin. My mom came later.
Because of his wife's small property, Sun Lin, an instructor of the Twenty-ninth Army who fled in disguise, had to temporarily arrange for his wife to take refuge in the French Concession in Tianjin, but the whole family had lost their source of livelihood.
I remember holding back urine at that time, I didn't dare to say anything when I wanted to pee, I didn't dare to say it when I wanted to pee, I didn't dare to make a sound, just to avoid the following of these Japanese.
Peiping fell on July 28
Zhu Ziqing, who teaches at Tsinghua University, wrote of the fall of Peiping on July 28: Everyone guessed on the phone that the enemy was attacking Xiyuan and the enemy was attacking Nanyuan. This is the sound of cannons, one shot is ours, two times twice is theirs.
The next morning, when I got up, Song Zheyuan's army had withdrawn, and the Japanese had entered Beijing. At this moment, everyone panicked. Amazing! Japan has entered Beijing.
—— Ma Fuxiang
Editors: Ifan, Montessori