Rebirth of the National Marshal

Now Chairman Chiang basically understood that it was impossible to rely on the interference of foreigners in the upper region to make the Japanese retreat. These foreigners only wanted to gain benefits on Chinese territory and would not do anything for the Chinese. The war had been going on for several months. These foreigners simply marked a non-war zone in the area where they lived. No matter which side's army entered, they would detain those people.

Originally, if you really did this, it would be fine, at least you could preserve a clean land for the people of Shanghai. Unfortunately, this rule only applies to the Chinese. If Japanese soldiers enter the concession, the military and police who lease them will not even bother to intervene. However, if Chinese soldiers enter the concession, they will immediately disarm you and secretly hand you over to the Japanese.

According to them, the Chinese would never be able to defeat the Japanese, and the Japanese would become the masters of this land in the future. We should build good relations with the future masters of this land and maintain our original privileges. The Japanese also needed to lease the land to do other things, and they did not intend to close the entire concession, so the two sides hit it off.

Once the Japanese arrived at the concession, they could only harass the Chinese people. They could not take action against the Europeans. This was what they had agreed upon.

These bandits actually reached an agreement on Chinese territory, sacrificing the interests of the Chinese people. They preserved everything they had. They completely forgot how these people helped them in the past. These foreigners were all a group of hungry wolves, except that they were not as brutal as the Japanese. When the crisis came, they did not think of helping the Chinese. Instead, they sacrificed the interests of the Chinese people inside the concession.

When the highest military meeting was held, the chairman proposed to use the power of these foreigners to put pressure on the Japanese. At that time, Mao Yuanshan made a statement that these foreigners were basically the same as the Japanese, and they would never help us Chinese. Although the prosperity of the lease was due to the contribution of us Chinese, they were still very clear about right and wrong. They could help the Chinese on some financial issues, but they would not offend the Japanese on national issues because they knew that the Japanese would become the masters of this land sooner or later. Helping the Chinese was just waiting to give the Japanese an excuse to send troops in the future. They also wanted to preserve the lease. Even if the Japanese occupied this land, the lease should exist. This is the so-called appeasement policy.

They don't even think about the fact that the Japanese are invaders just like them. If they really occupy this land, it would be a dream for you to still want to keep the concession.

During the war, a very interesting thing happened inside the concession. The wife of Mr. Dupont, the Consul General of the French Concession, was taking a walk with her children outside the French Concession one day when a group of Japanese soldiers came and captured her. These Japanese soldiers were the subordinates of Prince Asaka Naruhiko. They were ordered to go to the concession to find some young girls to take back to the barracks, but the Chinese girls had all run away. A beautiful French woman happened to be walking on the street, and the prince did not say that women from this country could not be taken away. There were no young women here anyway, and now we Japanese are in our heyday in this land, so we can just capture the French and the British. The consul's wife kept talking about who her husband was, but unfortunately none of the Japanese soldiers understood French, so it was like talking to a cow.

Everyone can imagine how the consul's wife was treated when she was taken back to the Japanese military camp. The Chinese people also know that the consul's wife committed suicide that night. The French consul's wife was treated like this. Although the French consul was also furious, what can you do? What can you do to these Japanese? The troops you rented here are only a few hundred people, and there are no heavy weapons. If you want to compete with the Japanese, it is impossible.

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs protested to the Japanese about this matter, and the French Consul General also mobilized some forces in the French Concession to resist the Japanese, but what was the final result? Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko captured several Chinese people and forced them to wear Japanese clothes, and then handed them over to the French General Consul, who said that these people were the Japanese soldiers who harassed Mrs. Dupont, and they could do whatever they wanted.

At the beginning, the Japanese government was also prepared to give an explanation to the French. After all, the Japanese government is not very strong yet and has only achieved some victories in China. It is far from occupying half of the Pacific Ocean during the Second World War. It does not have such courage. Moreover, France is an old capitalist power. If it is not handled properly, it will create a powerful enemy for itself, which is definitely not worth the loss. But later it was found out that it was Prince Higashikuni Yasuhiko who did it. There is nothing we can do about it. Do we have to hand over our prince?

That is absolutely impossible. So just find a few Chinese people, put them in Japanese clothes and give them to them. If they are willing to believe it, then they will believe it. If they are not willing to believe it, then it depends on what they do next.

That night, after the consul's wife committed suicide, the consul was also extremely sad, but what could he do? He had already received instructions from home. No matter how the matter developed, he had to swallow the bitter fruit. As a diplomat, he had to make sacrifices for the interests of the whole of France. If the situation with the Japanese really deteriorated, it was very likely that the French Concession would be occupied by the Japanese.

Finally, the consul was forced into a corner and could only cry over his wife's body. Even the Consul General of the French Concession had to swallow his anger. What else could make these foreign capitalist countries interfere in this matter? So now everyone in the central government understands that these foreigners will not turn against the Japanese over trivial matters. Now they are also afraid of the Japanese.

What Mao Yuanshan said at the beginning was correct. In the war against Japan, we can only rely on ourselves. We cannot rely on anybody else but these imperialist countries.