Plane Merchant's Dream of a Powerful Country

The first target plane, December 1943, Shanghai City in the eastern part of the Yanhuang Continent. city.

Before 1937, Shanghai was nourished by the "Golden Ten Years" of the Yanhuang Republic of China. In addition, it was adjacent to Nanjing, the capital of the Yanhuang Republic of China. Known as "Oriental Night Paris".Some experts and scholars in later generations used some "historical data" to infer that the income of a female textile worker in Shanghai could catch up with that of a county magistrate in other provinces, cities and counties.

But what is the actual situation? What is the "golden decade" like? In 1939, most of the textile factories in Shanghai belonged to foreign countries, especially Japanese pirates.From as early as 1917 to 1922, the Japanese pirates’ domestic business groups had plans to create, acquire, control, and destroy the local national textile industry in Yanhuang step by step. For example: the bankruptcy of the Dazhong Textile Factory; The mills were annexed by Japanese pirates; Yuda, Huafeng, Baocheng No. [-], and Yuanxing spinning mills were managed by Japanese pirate creditors; Deda, Dafeng, and Changzhou spinning mills changed hands at a loss; Housheng spinning mills were sold to Japanese pirates; Fucheng, Dingxin, The Jiu'an spinning mill is closed.

From 1930 to 1935, due to the economic crisis broke out by the western powers and the domestic purchasing power of Yanhuang was exhausted, Japanese pirates took the opportunity to dump at low prices, including eight of the nine famous spinning mills in Jinhai City and more than two-thirds of all spinning mills in Shanghai. They were all obtained by Japanese pirates by means of forcible occupation. By the end of 1939, there were nearly 10 textile workers in Shanghai, of which 6 worked in factories controlled by Japanese pirates, and less than 8 were in Chinese capital.

So, working in a spinning mill managed by the invaders, Japanese pirates, how can Yanhuang textile workers get better treatment?

The cotton mills in the early Republic of China were characterized by a larger number of workers than other factories, and a higher proportion of female workers and young workers. Before the start of the war in 1937, the system of contractors was mainly adopted (the Chinese text "Contracting Workers" is a true portrayal of it), but later, as the national war between the Japanese pirates Yan and Huang became more and more serious, the number of unemployed workers in Yanhuang increased, and rural areas went bankrupt. A large number of farmers flooded into the cities, resulting in a very rich labor force. In addition, Japanese pirates were not willing to share part of the profits among the contractors. Therefore, the contract system was abolished and replaced by a direct low-wage employment system.The worst of these are small laborers and child laborers.Because they don’t have any skills, rely on their strength to eat, or are young and have lost their parents and relatives, not only the Japanese pirates exploited their full value, but even Yanhuang’s own people such as waiters, yarn shakers, coppersmiths and ordinary workers bullied them. them.

The so-called small workers are generally responsible for pushing yarn, sweeping the floor, wiping carts, rewinding bobbins, unpacking floral clothes, refueling cloth machines, stepping down, and stacking cloth carts.The small workers who sweep the floor have to sweep twenty or thirty square meters every day, that is, the floor that can accommodate about 150 machines; Worst of all, about 250 trucks have to be refueled every day. Each truck has 79 oil holes, and the automatic truck has more than 1 oil hole. In addition, many oil holes are under the machine. You have to sleep on the ground or lie on the ground like a dog. You can work hard, not only will your waist hurt so much that you will break it after a day, but your arm will be crushed if you don't pay attention.And they are often so busy that they don't even have time to pee. Is this the prosperous age of the Republic of China?

After the Japanese pirates invaded China, their textile factories set up positions such as the big class, the second shift, and the third shift. "Xiao Dongyang" (that is, the traitorous dog leg who assists the Japanese pirates), and the lower class is the lower class, such as inspectors, waiters (the workshop supervisor, responsible for completing production tasks), instructors (teaching raw hands how to work), yarn shakers, helpers, etc. Jointers, doffers, etc. Among them, there are differences between special grades (only applicable to foremen), superior grades, and general grades for workers, so as to cause internal conflicts among the people of Yanhuang and divide their national cohesion.

In the Japanese pirate textile factory, two shifts a day are implemented, that is, textile workers need to work continuously for twelve hours a day.The morning shift is from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] pm. In order not to be late, their wages are deducted. Yanhuang textile workers who live a little further away need to get up at [-]:[-] am (a few female workers need to get up at [-]:[-] am to cook), and then eat a little Paofan rushed to work, and entered the factory at [-]:[-] at the latest to "take over".In addition, there is a supervisor patrolling after work, and there is no way to sleep on it. After being caught, in addition to being fined half a day's wages, he will also be "rewarded" with two slaps, a "top leader" (reprimand), and a "ham" (severely) kick).

As for eating at noon, Japanese pirate businessmen are even worse. Other factories can rest and eat for 10 minutes to half an hour. Japanese pirate merchants treat Yanhuang people as subjugated slaves, cattle, horses and animals. Work hard to squeeze the labor value of Yanhuang people to the greatest extent.

But such a strong manual labor, in exchange for an average daily wage of only 4 or 5 cents, the ultra-high wages of more than 1 yuan per day mentioned by those who advocate the model of the Republic of China and how beautiful the Republic of China mentioned, It only belongs to the instructor, that is, the female foreman, and the waiter, that is, the workshop manager. It has nothing to do with ordinary textile workers.What's more, due to the existence of the gang in Shanghai, the bottom-level workers have to accept about a quarter of their salary income in "protection fees".

Along the way, except for the most basic food expenses, the remaining money of the textile workers is only enough to barely have a shelter in the slums of the "Lime Kiln".Since the "lime kiln" straw hut is crowded with dozens of people in one room, it is complicated and noisy, and it is impossible to get a good night's sleep during the day.This is the real life of textile workers at that time: 24 hours a day, working more than [-] hours, plus commuting to and from get off work, cooking at home, washing clothes, sleeping for five or six hours, so as to recover some energy and continue to work Working, busy under whipping, humiliation, starvation, massacre, and exploitation, exchanging life for money and making money with life, in order to "create thousands of wealth for the enemy, and can't feed his own children and parents." Therefore, the glory of the Republic of China is advocated like that , The awesome bullshit bricks of the Republic of China called beasts, open your dog eyes and see, the life of the people at the bottom at that time, how is it better, where is the middle class! ?

In December 1943 (at 12 o'clock in the evening on the same day), there was a silver building located in a remote street on the edge of the downtown area of ​​Shanghai. The silver building was not big, and the facade only occupied two house numbers. The concession is not far away, and the surrounding area belongs to the relatively low-end consumption area in Shanghai. There are low-end brothels all around. The high-end brothels in Shanghai are on the side of Sima Road and Wuma Road. Two", here is called "Salty Meat Village", which means that it is not even "fresh meat", which shows how lowly it is. The service targets are also low-level people. According to the history of the main plane, a large number of Star-Spangled Banner sailors came here later Influx, bring the prostitutes here to buy jewelry and gifts. Shanghai dialect calls this kind of women "Salty Water Girl".

Today, a middle-aged man in a suit walked into the silver building and said to the shopkeeper who was about to clean up the shop and closed the door: "Shopkeeper, do you have the 'Shuanglong Xifeng' hairpin here?"

"'Double Dragon Playing Phoenix' hairpin? This guest officer, we don't have one. Only the 'Double Dragon Playing Pearl' hairpin, is this okay?" After hearing the words, the shopkeeper was slightly taken aback and replied with a smile.

"No, our lady wants the 'Shuanglong Xifeng' hairpin by name." The middle-aged man refused bluntly.

"This~~" The shopkeeper hesitated for a while, and then showed a look of not wanting to lose customers and let the business go, and said: "If you don't care about the price, I can let the master of the silver building make it custom-made, okay?"

"Oh? Yes! How much do you want?"

"500 yuan?"

"Some are too high, how about 180 yuan?"

"400 yuan?"

"211 yuan, this is my reserve price."

"Deal, wait a moment, I will close the door, you come with me!" The shopkeeper hurriedly said with an extremely happy look that the transaction was completed.

A few minutes later, in the attic on the second floor of the Silver Building.

"Comrade Liu Ningyi, hello, I am Ma Chungu sent by the central government." Ma Chungu, who had confirmed the identity of the other party with the correct noun and number code, spoke first.

"Comrade Ma Chungu, I'm looking forward to seeing you here. Do you have any new instructions from the central government?" Liu Ningyi, who pretended to be the owner of the Yinlou and was actually a member of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Yanhuang Red Party, asked excitedly.

"I came this time mainly to verify some information." Ma Chungu didn't dare to waste time, and hurriedly asked, "We have received information (military satellite monitoring pictures), and found that the Japanese pirate navy sent a large-scale transport ship to Shanghai recently. It seems that they are moving a large amount of machinery and materials, and I would like to ask if you have more detailed information here."

"There is such a thing."

"What are they trying to ship? Is it all machinery?"

"From the guests who come and go, the news I got is that the little devil is doing his best to move the large and small factory equipment in Shanghai and surrounding provinces and cities, and it seems to be shipped to Nanyang (Australia), where he is going to be reassembled for production."

"Is the little devil ready to run away?" Ma Chungu said to himself.

"It should be said that they are preparing to retreat. Those Ergouzi (referring to the traitors) are now in a state of panic, nervous and afraid all day long. Although the Japanese pirates keep advocating that the Yangtze River is as dangerous as gold, our Red Party troops without a navy can only look at the river and sigh. But judging from the information collected by Er Gouzi, the Japanese pirates are rushing to transfer all kinds of factory equipment, especially the various machinery in the military factory. Comrade Ma Chungu, what should we do? Wait for the enemy to snatch them all away?"

"Don't worry, Comrade Liu Ningyi! Merely the machinery and equipment won't cause us much loss or effect. Besides, we just need to be patient, and this Shanghai and the whole south will be completely changed."

"The big troops are finally coming?" Hearing the meaning of Ma Chungu's words, Liu Ning couldn't help but his eyes lit up excitedly. He didn't know how long he had been waiting for this day.

"Well, it should be soon, and you all need to be patient for the time being!" Seeing Liu Ningyi's excitement, Ma Chungu comforted and encouraged him: "Now is the last darkness before dawn, and the light will come soon. Through secret words and hidden stakes, we contacted our comrades in Shanghai and asked them to prepare and respond to prevent accidental injuries during the cross-river battle."

"Yes, I understand!"