Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 1: Mad City (Preface)

In the twentieth century, Shanghai, no matter which European and American countries, recognized that it was the largest city in the Far East, full of opportunities and hope, but also full of filth and evil. There are countless academic works for The city has been given distinctive names, such as "Adventurer's Paradise", "Oriental New York", "Oriental Paris", "Miracle City" and "Magic City". Sister-in-law Sokoluoer said on the Internet, the most duo-speaking girl is said by her

The war in 1937 completely changed the face of the city. She became the first world-class metropolis to be devastated by war in World War II. The bombing of residential areas by the Japanese navy created Hundreds of thousands of homeless refugees, more than 900 factories, enterprises and handicraft workshops were destroyed, and more than 1,000 factories and facilities were occupied by the Japanese army. At the same time, many important large enterprises relocated to the interior during the early days of the war.

The city lost 70% of its industrial production capacity that year. Although Japan has made a series of efforts to restore production, the industrial scale of Shanghai has not been restored until New China was established. The level before the war.

The closure of the factory caused more than 600,000 unemployed workers. Because of the fear of bombing by the Japanese army, a large number of war refugees poured into the concession. In September 1937, in just a few weeks, the public concession and the French concession It increased by 2.5 million residents, including expensive merchants and compradors, and solitary poor laborers. At that time, the public concession was overcrowded, and even the famous Big World Entertainment Club was full of people who had fled from Zhabei.

After the Battle of Songhu, Shanghai’s urban and suburban areas were occupied by the Japanese. Only two concessions still retained extraterritoriality. It is ironic to say that the humiliation treaty signed by the Qing Dynasty blocked the Japanese at this time. Outside the concession. Since then, the city has started a three-year long "island" life.

Of course this is what happened in the original history, because the wings of a certain apostle were too diligent, and now the situation in Shanghai has been significantly different from history.

In history, from 1977 to 1940, in just three years, Shanghai changed its municipal government for three terms. At the beginning, it was founded by the Japanese occupation forces [Shanghai Municipal Government], whose name comes from In the "Book of Rites and Ritual," the world is the public on the road. A so-called "city flag" with a Tai Chi logo in the middle was specially formulated, in an attempt to use it to replace the city concession. The Qingtian and Bairi flags were hoisted, but this plan was terminated with the abolition of the "Highway Government". Anyway, the concession did not take this seriously.

The next municipal government is the "Shanghai Special Municipal Government" established by the so-called "Republic of China Restoration Government" formed by the traitor Liang Hongzhi. It only lasted six months before it ended. It was replaced by Wang Puppet The "Shanghai Municipal Government" established by the regime. What's interesting is that there was actually a "Shanghai Municipal Government in Exile" in Chongqing at the time.

It seems that the frequency of urban regime changes is very fast, but in fact the team behind it is still the same, but it has changed a sign outside.

Shanghai was actually divided into three cities at this time. The public concession and the French concession were merged into one party. The rest is the area occupied by the Japanese army in the public concession and the Shanghai area under the control of the Wang Puppet. Entangled in this city, using each other to fight, quickly formed a strange balance on this land.

The so-called area that the Shanghai government really controls is only the Zhabei Jiangwan generation in Nanshi. The remaining Huxi area has become a land of no owner because of its many strengths and lack of value. Various criminal groups and Secret service agencies and underground organizations turned upside down here, causing serious security problems in the concessions.

In particular, the secret service department of the Wang puppet government and the military-in-command in Chongqing regard the concession as a battlefield for their confrontation, and cases of assassination, kidnapping, robbery, and drug trafficking are on the rise.

In history, because of the ongoing war in Europe, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in the public concession lost the confidence to be tough. They were afraid of triggering the conflict of Japan’s full takeover of the concession. They were almost servile to the Japanese. The Dongs tried their best to please the Japanese military, even at the risk of infringing on their own interests.

Because the Vichy government surrendered to Germany, the French Concession was able to maintain stability in the concession. After all, France has been regarded as Germany's sphere of influence, and the Japanese are still a little taboo about this. Historically, the French Concession persisted until 1943, and finally gave up all the concession privileges due to various pressures. Since then, Shanghai has truly fallen into the city.

However, now that the European War has all ended, the public concession backing has regained its former tough attitude. More than half of this place has been classified as a German power, and the rest belong to the powerful American, Japanese and puppet governments. If you can't get used to it, send soldiers to fight when there is a kind of.

The French Concession is even more domineering. The glory of France cannot be humiliated. The affairs in the Concession are controlled by Lao Tzu. Whoever dares to mess up will destroy his whole family.

Especially since September this year, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in the public concession approved by a majority vote to dismiss a Japanese director who was forced in in 38 years. At the same time, the police department of the Ministry of Industry also dismissed ten Japanese detectives who had been promoted from the patrol, and cancelled the special department requested by the Japanese.

Dong Fan Keling (Franklin’s transliteration), the Director-General of the Ministry of Industry, suddenly changed his old appeasement and arrogantly told the Japanese side that if Japan is dissatisfied with this, it can divide Hongkou Yangpu and other areas north of the Suzhou River from the public concession. .

The Japanese Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Consul General of Shanghai Kanjo Horiuchi who stayed in Nanjing was taken aback by this. He had been working in China for a long time in diplomatic work and had never seen such arrogant things. This is simply a slap in the face of the Japanese Empire.

Horiuchi, who served as the director of the East Asia Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is a Chinese expert~IndoMTL.com~ and also has a deep understanding of the West, and can be regarded as a qualified diplomat. He knew that the end of the war in Europe would have a profound impact on the world situation, especially in the case of Japan’s failure to form an alliance with Germany. Horiuchi felt very sorry and nervous because it meant that Japan could no longer use the covenant as a condition to prevent it. German power expanded to the Asian region.

Japan’s diplomatic service has always had its own unique perspective. Diplomats can see clearly that unless Japan is ready to be an enemy of all of Europe, they can only watch the Germans slowly infiltrate the Asian colonies.

Now it seems that the previous worries have become reality, at least in this wonderful place of Shanghai, the change has already begun.

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