Chapter 9 After the war came to a certain city

Thunder shakes people's bodies, and war shakes people's souls; when a war begins in a certain city in the south, it spreads rapidly and unexpectedly in a violent way, like a powerful hand, shaking the pure souls of all ordinary and good citizens in the country Seasons, in Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai...and other places, there are still many young men and women with neurasthenia, wantonness, laziness, and shamelessness, each imported from the United States by x x lewd music, embracing each other until dancing in a ball every day .Gentlemen, the authorities are even more boring, and they all look forward to going to another country to use force to intervene to save the country from difficulties.

In the city of XX along the middle of the Yangtze River, from a certain aspect, the sound of steel rushing, the sound of shouting and killing, and the scene of the fire destroying everything were printed in countless numbers in a rhythmless and disorderly record. , When going to spread the word on the city streets, the citizens of Xinda Street in XX City were all on the streets, hoping for some unexpected news with anxiety and fear and a little bit of luck.War is unavoidable, how should the government come up with a way to support a certain situation, and make various negotiations at the same time, the citizens are willing to read such news from the daily news.After the issue was printed, a person stood in the middle of the street and yelled loudly, and people rushed forward to grab that side of the newspaper and put it down their noses.After a while, these people looked at each other with disappointed eyes, cursing the uselessness of the people who are currently in charge of the country, and cursing the traitors who have led the nation in twenty years of history, and then shook their heads and walked away.

These kind-hearted citizens walked to the side of the street, regardless of their familiarity, gathered in one place, and talked about everything with each other with an air of great concern.The dreamy character of a nation long oppressed has taken hold of all the citizens of XX, so these people talk about the hopeless hope in military affairs, the miracles in foreign affairs, and most of them understand that the government is not trustworthy. But they still place their hopes on this government. However, after XX's secret traitorous conditions were mentioned by outsiders' newspapers, the atmosphere in XX City was a little different.Some people on the street used rough and wild words to scold the authorities for being traitorous and fawning on foreigners.There is another thing mentioned, but it still comes down to the fact that this war will become a meaningless sacrifice because of the incompetence of the government.This is the citizens of ×× City, a group of citizens with enthusiasm but no training and lack of leadership!

However, on a certain day, someone climbed to the money-changing booth on Xinda Street, stood up high and gave a loud speech.A group of citizens gathered there from all directions, each staring at the unknown young man in gray long coat with bloody eyes, who was absent-minded and excited.That person reported the truth from the other side, and everyone knew that the front was so urgently in need of material and strength rescue, but on this side they only saw the authorities' statement of trust in the League of Nations and talks about diplomatic success.While the government was busy moving the capital, it also hinted to the citizens that they wanted a hundred calms, and nothing was arranged except calming down.The orator talked for a while, and then it was his turn to conclude.The man said: "...what are we masters doing?"

Everyone looked at each other and looked at each other in their hearts, "Who knows? Are you busy too?" At that time, a young man with the appearance of a small office clerk, with a yellow face, was paying attention to the speaker.He was standing near the table, and when he heard the speaker ask that sentence, he remembered something around him, looked around carefully, took out a newspaper from X from his pocket, and ended up After stuttering and reading for a while, the voice was too low for anyone to hear clearly, so he handed the newspaper to the person standing high. After a while, everyone understood from the aloud reading that this was a somewhat ironic record on a foreign news agency, an article under the title "The Sobriety and Calm of the Central and Major Cities".That article detailed all kinds of empty and useless plans and ludicrous hopes of the country's leaders, together with the repeated statement of "I will not provoke, everything is hosted by the League of Nations" by some responsible persons, the face of the government was despicable and incompetent His air is alive in front of the citizens.

Someone has spoken. "I hope that the government will send troops, and we the public will contribute money to support a little bit of justice!" Another said, "Ask who wants justice? Who wants soldiers?" Someone mentioned material support.In addition, there are people who are extremely dissatisfied with the government and speak more freely. The usual chaos and out-of-control shouting created an uneasy atmosphere in the streets of XX City; the streets were already filled with people, and rickshaws couldn't get through, so they had to take a detour. The police are coming.It inevitably aroused the anger of the masses, and they became disgusted with the vigilante, and the police were beaten.

While driving the police away, everyone was still there to discuss relief matters in the war zone.After a while, a large group of policemen reappeared at the west end of the street, fully armed, took a charging posture, and ran towards the crowd here.The timid ones among the townspeople left the crowd and scattered in all directions, each with a premonition that the stick would fall on his head would be extremely boring. The one standing on the table saw this situation, and said loudly: "Brothers, comrades, don't be afraid, don't go. This is our own business, we have to discuss it ourselves! We should discuss the solution Comrades, the police will not interfere!"

A small number of citizens were encouraged by the words, and stood beside the man without moving. The majority of the people also stabilized after hearing the words, and stood still in their original places.But the charging black group came to the side in an instant.An unexpected attack, beatings began everywhere in silence.The timid citizens ran around with the appearance of panicked little animals, and the tougher ones were arguing while dodging the sudden attack.There was the sound of children crying while being trampled on, and there were ambiguous insults and appeals from various mouths. An unimaginable chaos continued for a long time.In the chaos, the person who had spoken at the money exchange stand and advocated for the citizens was arrested, stretched his hands and feet to his side, scolded and yelled, his face was red with blood, and was rushed westward.There is also a group of young people who look like businessmen and middle school students, their hair is ripped apart, their clothes have lost their original shape, their noses are broken, and their faces are soaked in blood. They are also roaring and being rushed westward. up.

Although there were still so many people, after capturing a group of citizens, everything fell silent. But after a while, someone stood up on another shop cabinet and spoke. "It's not acceptable to spoil the citizens like this for no reason! Everyone has seen it, this is the behavior of wild animals. We have to settle accounts with the government! Let's all question this mastermind together!" The citizens who are usually very honest but very angry at this time gathered into a considerable group, plus countless citizens who followed behind, they walked towards the same street when the security brigade came in less than a while.

Therefore, one o'clock later, in front of the Public Security Bureau of ×× City, some people were arrested again, and a shameless beating of unarmed civilians by force took place again, causing chaos there again.In the afternoon, martial law was temporarily declared.But at night, the government realized that the expansion of the incident would have other effects, and the arrested citizens were released. But seven more were not released. By the next day, the entire city of XX was gone.Reconciliation is obviously no longer possible, and release without bail is no longer a favor. The opinion of the citizens of ×× is that no one is guilty of what happened yesterday, and no one should be beaten and arrested.A group of innocent citizens, seeing that the government is so indifferent to state affairs, come to the streets to discuss some matters that citizens have the right to intervene in, and discuss some citizens' obligations. It needs a discussion to determine. What kind of public security is hindered by this discussion?Why should a businessman be arrested and beaten for patriotism and righteous indignation when he reported some facts to everyone and said a few words that everyone wanted to say but couldn't say?Why are most innocent citizens beaten and arrested for no reason?Why have so many people been detained, but deceived the masses by announcing that they have all been released immediately?

What the citizens of ×× want to strike is a kind of fairness from the authorities to the citizens.No one has received this fairness from the authorities in the past.Cowardly towards the enemy and flattering to the great powers, the ×× city authorities, while adhering to the policies of the central government, used both suppression and deception towards the citizens.Now the masses feel compelled to resist this authority, and therefore they are all out of town. Every citizen knows how desperately the ××× army protested against imperialism with blood and life for the humiliation and exploitation suffered by the oppressed classes for the sake of a nation's spirit, how eagerly they look for help, and how indifferent the government is. No matter how they don't care, the citizens all want to do everything they can to provide everything for the front. On the one hand, the citizens of ×× are not in the market, but on the other hand, they still do their best to do that.Without any help from any agency, without any donations to any public agency, seventeen trucks, each loaded with various items, continued to drive towards the highway of ××.On the one hand, all of them voluntarily go on strike, but on the other hand they can continue to provide relief. This kind of strike clearly shows that the citizens of ×× are ashamed to cooperate with the government. This is of course impossible. The ×× city authorities are not stupid, they understand all the circumstances, and they are trying their best to mediate.Threats and lures have been imposed on important businessmen in ×× City. Therefore, the chairman of the chamber of commerce, the president of the bank...and all those who have a close relationship with the government and have the power to control the market are trying to prevent this incident from expanding.On the one hand, the authorities made a concession again. In order not to pursue too much in the "national disaster", the other six citizens who were beaten with bruised arms and faces were all released on ordinary bail.As for the other one, he was charged with "reactionary evidence", detained, and soon transferred to the No. X military court.Only a river with water can flow, and only a wise mind can think. The citizens of XX City are so shockingly honest, they were coaxed and deceived, so the city reopened, and a storm passed. Since then, in the newspapers of XX City, there are always more news about the victory of the front war from the government than in other places. At the same time, the volunteer army of the city government has also set off, and there are more news about the central army being transferred to the front.All kinds of news that seem to be specially made for the citizens of ×× are published every day with an extremely shameless exaggerated meaning, deceiving the enthusiasm of the citizens and alleviating the hatred of the citizens for not resisting the authorities. Until the news of the X Army's retreat from X X was confirmed, they understood that everything was hopeless. Every day, there were countless citizens, quietly, looking for the result of the failed diplomacy from the newspapers at the public newspaper reading office or at the corner of the street; the citizens understood War is hopeless, trust the government's lies, and look forward to new diplomacy, new unity, and new politics. ………… In the sleep of all the citizens, civil war was brewing again. Since ×× City is the hub of the ×× line, the troops on the railway line outside the city are transported to various places in military vehicles in a hurry every day.People don't understand why these troops didn't exist for a while, and why they crawled out of the ground at this time.People don't understand how this civil war can be avoided, and they think that as long as the government allocates territory properly, the civil war can be eased. There are new roads in the city of ××.There are not many cars on the market, and citizens remember them clearly so that they will not make mistakes.The mayor's is blue, a senior member of the military department is gray, a gentleman's concubine is green, a boss is black, a member of the Central Committee is gray armored...there are only twenty vehicles in total.One day at around 2:10 in the afternoon, the mayor of XX took his decent blue car and crossed Xindajie to go to the government office. Inside, a man ran out, seemed to have gone a little crazy, and easily got into the mayor's car. The mayor knew at a glance that the assassin had arrived, and he didn't know how to deal with it. The guard sitting next to the car, knowing his duties, prevented the assassin-looking man from doing anything, and shot the assassin first without hesitation. two shots.The man fell in a convulsion, and there was unprecedented chaos in the street, and people ran into the shops in panic.The occupant of the car was very alert and knew that there were other dangers around him, so he drove the car towards the city government.The man who was beaten to death was first surrounded by a large circle of people, and later surrounded by a circle of soldiers and police.Immediately a temporary martial law was imposed around Xinjie, and strict searches were carried out on all shops and passers-by.Soon the whole city was under martial law, and so was the station.All the military and police stationed in the city were extremely active because of this assassination case.Judging from the activities of the military and police, the mayor of XX City is safe and sound.Judging from the martial law situation, on the one hand, the citizens spread rumors that the mayor was injured, and they all seemed very panicked. After being overwhelmed with shock, the assassinated mayor was alone in his office, drafting a telegram to Shangfeng to report the distress.In the conference hall outside, an important meeting is being prepared.The person who was ordered to go to the Public Security Bureau to question and inspect the assassin came back.As a result of the police inspection, only one envelope was found, and there were two lines written on the envelope: A citizen of XX City submitted a petition to the mayor of XX, Mr. Jun Qi, to take the letter back from the Public Security Bureau and petition the mayor for review.The mayor seemed to understand what was going on at a glance.Although he knew that the thin letter was definitely not a bomb, he still pretended to be very cautious and tore the letter open.As he read it, the mayor blushed.It turned out that this was a letter from a citizen of XX city who, seeing the war situation in XX side in the newspaper, asked the mayor to call the central government to send troops to save the country, and wrote a letter to the mayor.Because I planned to deliver the letter to the mayor in person, I did what I did today rashly.The mayor blushed, and was stupefied when he saw the idea of ​​saving the country. After a while, he pretended to say to the subordinates who were involved: "This assassin is so insidious and cunning. If you have a chance, shoot me. If you don't have a chance, shoot me." Give this thing when you start." The person involved didn't understand what "this thing" meant at all, so he didn't dare to make a sound. The mayor asked again after a while: "Can't you find the other one?" "There's nothing else," said the matter-of-fact. "Why, the pistol and the bomb are all missing?" "There are no pistols and bombs," said the officer. "You bastard, how do you know? I saw that thing with my own eyes. How could Director Yu be so foolish and neglect this thing! If they want them to find it, they will definitely find it. I saw that it was a Seven Rings Brown Ning; I can guess without looking, there are three bullets, you go ask him!" I thought to myself, "How can a gentleman from a pharmacy have a pistol?" But seeing that the mayor's expression was wrong and he didn't dare to contradict this important person, he obediently withdrew. When we arrived, the mayor of District Yu sent an old pistol with no more than three bullets in it.The mayor was presiding over an important meeting, and when they saw the murder weapon, they passed it around and discussed it with the utmost caution, and at the same time remembered the danger of the mayor in that critical crisis. Praise the mayor for his fearlessness in the face of danger, and congratulate the mayor for his life. The mayor then smiled and said to those rich and important people: "Yes, fortunately, brother is still calm, and he can be so calm after the accident, otherwise this incident will affect this city somehow and drag the whole city down." into what a terrible mess." The chief of the Public Security Bureau had already received the report from the district chief, understood the meaning of the mayor's words, and replied in the tone that his subordinates are used to responding decently: "Yes, yes, thanks to the mayor's calmness, he was able to deal with the matter well. , so as not to create other dangers. When encountering such a thing, the lack of composure must be bad." When the two finished speaking, they both looked at each other and smiled, and the colleagues sitting around the table also opened their mouths to eat meat and drink and smiled. "A planned conspiracy, an obvious assassination, if the guards on the mayor's car hadn't been the first to kill the thief, the whole city of XX would have fallen into such an unimaginable chaos!" Citizen You can read this kind of news in silence in the evening paper that day.Three or four days later, I silently read the same record from the major newspapers in Tianjin and Shanghai, and at the same time, they also published photos of the dead bodies of the thugs and the murder weapon. Friends from afar, the mayor of ××, when they saw that kind of news, they all felt sorry for the city of ×× The situation at that time was a sweat. Are citizens of ×× suspicious of this mistake?No. Made in May 1932