Shadow Spy

Chapter 53 At this time, Shanghai Haihai is still praised

In his previous life, Li Junhao was a semi-military fan. He knew quite a bit about World War II, the Anti-Japanese War, and the arduous 14 years. He also had a special understanding of the situation of the special city of Shanghai during the Anti-Japanese War. He knew that in April 1939, At the time of the month, the glory of Shanghai and Hainan was at its peak, but it would soon begin to fade!

At this time, Shanghai was at its peak economically from the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War in 1937 to the complete withdrawal of Chinese troops at the end of November of that year. Although fear, hesitation and luck permeated the entire society.

As far as the industrial sector is concerned, there were 5525 Huashang industries in Shanghai and Hainan before the war.As a result, the industrial zones in Yangshupu, Zhabei, the north bank of the Suzhou River in West Shanghai and Nanshi were destroyed, and a large number of remaining factories and equipment were plundered by the Japanese army. It is estimated that the total losses to the Shanghai and Hainan industries were 5 million yuan in French currency. (The value of early legal currency was equivalent to the silver dollar).

Factories moved to the concession after the disaster, plus the original enterprises in the concession, only 1937 had resumed work by the end of 422, and the number of active industrial workers dropped sharply to 2.7; in terms of the number of factories and workers, both were inferior to those during the war. One-tenth of the former.

However, unexpectedly, only half a year later, the number of factories in the public settlements recovered to 4709, and the number of industrial workers increased sharply to 23.677. If the factories that resumed work in the occupied areas are also included, the total number of factories in Shanghai temporarily reached [-] There are more than a thousand families, which has exceeded the number before the war!

Two representative industries in Shanghai's industrial circles at that time were selected for comparison - the cotton textile industry and the papermaking industry. The former was directly related to the national economy and people's livelihood and military needs, while the latter was related to wartime propaganda and the distribution of paper media.

以战前1936年的生产情况为基数（100），在1937、1938、1939这三年中，棉纺织业的指数分别为：69.8、81.7、104.5，造纸业的指数分别为：115.6、147.4、242.5。很显然，沪海的棉纺织业到1939年已经超过战前的生产指数，而造纸业则从战争开始，每年都在巨幅增长。

其它工业品生产情况也大致类似，仅仅在1938年10月到1939年2月的五个月期间，租界中新开的工厂就达到了1994家。

From the perspective of international trade, the import trade volume of Shanghai and Shanghai in 1937 and 1938 was 507.9 million yuan and 376.4 million yuan respectively. The total volume was still very large, and the export trade also showed the same phenomenon.

Since Japan was an exporter of industrial products to China before the war, in the early days of the war, in addition to flowing to occupied areas through ports in occupied areas such as Shanghai and Hainan, Japanese goods also entered unoccupied areas through various smuggling channels; and Shanghai and Hainan In addition to occupied areas, the sources of raw materials and the destination of finished products for local industries also involve unoccupied areas. Various open, semi-open, underground, and formal channels maintain domestic trade with Shanghai as the hub. A fairly high degree of activity.

Objectively speaking, Shanghai during the war, while serving as an industrial production center, commercial gathering point, cultural leader and domestic and foreign trade transit hub, the influx of huge funds nourished various industries; outside the main artery of the economy , all capillaries in society have been infiltrated to some extent, which also means a large number of employment opportunities, and the consumption of all classes has indirectly benefited from this.

From this perspective, Shanghai and Shanghai in 1939 were still a place full of gold, and any economic move would attract the attention of the country, the entire Far East, and the entire Asia.Because of this, the visit of the US trade delegation has attracted attention from all walks of life from beginning to end.
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In the afternoon of the same day, Xiaoyu took Xiaohu back to Dequlou, earlier than they came back. She brought back good news. After consulting with the elders, Lei Junhao, the leader of Fenghuang Village, agreed to teach Yan Qingquan to Li Junhao. In order to reward him for his great efforts in rescuing Lei Shizhu, he specially sent Xiao Hu to be his guard again, and also taught him the secrets of boxing.Li Junhao was of course very happy when he got the news when he returned home, but he felt helpless when he saw Linda cheating.During the shopping time, Linda had unlimited energy, which made him a little overwhelmed. But when he got home, the girl turned into a puddle of mud, and he barely even had to feed her.

But even so, the next morning, Li Junhao told her to sleep a little longer and not go out today, but Linda yelled and disagreed, saying that she still wanted to go out to play, and started to jump up and down again. Very speechless.
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On Tuesday, Xiaoyu and Xiaohu were added to the tour group, and Linda's two bodyguards also followed. This actually relieved Li Junhao from having to be a handler!
In the morning, the group visited Yu Garden and the Chenghuang Temple, buying various gadgets and snacks that tired the two 1.9-meter-tall black bodyguards.

After having a meal of authentic local food near the Chenghuang Temple at noon, the group of two cars drove towards Songjiang in the southwest of the city, with the destination being Zuibaichi.

Regarding the origin of Zui Baichi, although Xiaoyu and Xiaohu were locals in Shanghai, they could not explain clearly. However, when their group arrived, they unexpectedly met more than [-] teachers and students from the Shanghai Tutorial Department of Fudan University (Shanghai School). !In order to train the students' listening and reading skills, the female teacher Li Xiaoyu who led the team was introducing the history and allusions of Zuibaichi in English, allowing them to explain it.

Zuibaichi has a history of more than [-] years. It was formerly the private residence of Zhu Zhichun, a Jinshi of Songjiang in the Song Dynasty. It was named "Guyang Garden", which means: this is the famous garden in the hometown of Lu Ji and Lu Yun.Because Lu Ji once wrote a poem that "it's like the sun of the valley and water", saying that his hometown is in the sun of the valley and the water.

In later generations, successive dynasties expanded on the basis of "Guyang Garden".At the end of the Ming Dynasty (AD 1644), Dong Qichang, a famous calligrapher and painter in Songjiang and Minister of Rites, built buildings such as the "Four Side Hall" and "Suspicious Navigation" here, and united a group of literati at that time to recite poems, compose poems and chant interpretations here. Continuously.

During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the famous painter Gu Dashen listed this place as a private villa and rebuilt it. He inherited and developed the artistic essence of classical garden architecture, and took advantage of Songjiang's most beautiful scenery in the Jiangnan water town. It was decorated with [-] square meters of rectangular lotus flowers. The pond is the main body, and horticultural techniques such as irregular symmetry are used to build the pond bank. Bamboo, plum, rockery, and strange stones are used as complements and integrated to create this famous garden.

Gu Dashen was good at painting and poetry. He also admired Bai Juyi's music and named the pond and garden "Zuibai".

The name "Drunk Bai" comes from Su Shi's "Drunken Baitang Ji": Prime Minister Han Qi admired Bai Juyi's leisurely and carefree character, especially his "Zhongzhong" who lived in Luoyang for a long time in his later years and enjoyed drinking and chanting poems. He lived in seclusion and built a "Zuibaitang" in his hometown of Anyang, Henan Province.

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