Chapter 1170 1172 [Wu Chi Lin]
Because sufficient supplies were stored, Xiang Nan's family did not suffer from hunger or cold.
Even so, they were still affected by the war.
At the factory, due to the fall of Wuyang, there were problems in sales, which affected the business. Moreover, due to high prices, the factory has problems even managing meals.
Today, Renji Pharmaceutical Factory employs 200 people. With so many people, it takes more than 100 kilograms of rice to eat every day, and it costs hundreds of silver dollars, which is really unbearable.
Therefore, in desperation, Renji Pharmaceutical Factory had to cut wages, from twenty silver dollars a month to five silver dollars. Even so, no one is willing to leave.
After all, in this year and month, it is a blessing to be able to eat enough. Hundreds of thousands of starving people in Macau are now starving for food.
Seeing this, Xiang Nan and Zhou Qingquan couldn't help feeling sad.
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In November 1938, the authorities decided to implement the scorched earth policy in order to block the Japanese offensive.
Changsha Garrison Headquarters set fire in the middle of the night. The fire spread rapidly and burned for five days and four nights before it was finally extinguished.
Over 90% of the city’s area was burned, and more than 30,000 people in Changsha became innocent ghosts in their sleep. The direct loss is more than one billion yuan, which is 40% of Changsha's total economic value.
In December, Wang defected to Hanoi, openly treasonous.
The news caused a worldwide sensation.
Enter the 39th year.
In February, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region launched a large-scale production campaign.
In March, the Japanese army occupied Yuzhang.
In April, the Luzhou Defense War ended, and the Japanese army occupied Luzhou.
In the same month, Italy invaded Albania.
In May, with the support of the Japanese army, the puppet Manchukuo launched an attack on Mongolia.
As a result, in the Battle of Nokampan, the Japanese army suffered more than 10,000 casualties and captured more than 40,000 people.
After this disastrous defeat, the arrogance of the Japanese army was seriously thwarted, and they never dared to confront the Soviet Union head-on.
Toyo's northward policy was also declared bankrupt, so it had to choose to go south. Therefore, it invaded French Indochina in 1940 and offended the allies such as Britain, France and the United States.
In June, Japanese troops invaded Shantou.
In August, Sood signed the "Never Violation Contract".
September, Germany invaded Poland, using a strategy of long distance and close attack.
Britain and France finally understood Germany's wolfish ambition to annex Europe and declared war on Germany.
The Second World War broke out in an all-round way.
In October, the Battle of Changsha ended. The Japanese army killed and injured more than 13,000 people, smashing its plot of "forced landing by war".
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During this period, the number of disaster victims in Macao continued to increase, reaching nearly 200,000 people.
Such a large number of immigrants have caused many social problems, but they have also made Macau more prosperous than ever.
Combined with the fact that Macao is a neutral region, materials from Europe, America, and Southeast Asia are pouring in, which also makes commerce and freight business flourish.
However, this prosperity is very abnormal.
The only ones who get rich are those who are lawless and plundering. They smuggled, sold drugs, prostituted, set up gambling, extorted, stole and robbed, hoarded, and took the opportunity to amass a lot of money.
On the contrary, ordinary people often have to pay an extremely high price in order to have a tile to cover their heads and eat three meals a day. Selling labor at a low price, pawning family property, and even selling children and daughters is appalling.
Xiang Nan discussed with Zhou Qingquan about this, and each took out 3,000 silver dollars to open a porridge shed to help the disaster and the people. But even so, it was a drop in the bucket. In just one year of 1939, more than 2,000 people in Macau died of freezing and starvation, which made people weep.
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1940.
In May, the battle of Zaoyi started. Although the Japanese army won, it was a tragic victory, with more than 11,000 casualties.
The patriotic general Zhang Zizhong unfortunately died for his country, which is very sad.
In June, Germany occupied Belgium, bypassed the Maginot Line, and swept across northern France.
The British and French allied forces were forced to evacuate by boat, which was known as the [Dunkirk Retreat] in history, and France surrendered immediately.
In July, Germany bombed London, and the Battle of Britain began.
In August, the Eighth Route Army launched a Hundred Regiments Campaign to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army. Killed and injured more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers and more than 5,000 puppet troops, which greatly dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army.
In September, the Japanese army invaded Southeast Asia and occupied it.
At this time, France has surrendered, so it is beyond reach.
In the same month, Germany and Italy teamed up with Japan to sign the "Triple Pact", officially forming the Axis Powers.
In October, Germany invades Romania.
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Almost the whole world is at war. The newspapers see that this is where the war is happening. Where is the war?
Xiang Nan doesn't even want to read newspapers now. Because there are very few good news in the newspapers, only here is captured and there is occupied, which makes people really upset.
But in August, when the Eighth Route Army launched the Hundred Regiments Campaign, Xiang Nan couldn't help but drink with Zhou Qingquan and get drunk.
You know, since the Japanese invaded China in an all-round way, he hasn't drunk a drop of alcohol for three years.
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November, the twentieth, late at night.
Xiang Nan's family is sleeping.
At this moment, a knock on the door was heard suddenly.
Xiang Nan woke up suddenly.
Since the Japanese army occupied Wuyang, he always sleeps with one eye open and one eye closed, and wakes up whenever there is any movement, just in case of accidents.
Then he put on his clothes and went downstairs.
At this time, Jin Shanzhao, Wang Tiezhu and others also woke up, and walked out with Xiang Nan.
By Xi Wei's light, he saw a beggar-like figure in tattered clothes standing at the door.
"Who is it?" Xiang Nan shouted.
"Master Ye, it's me, open the door quickly." The man outside the door shouted.
Xiang Nan was taken aback, then ran over and opened the door, "Wu Chi Lin, is it really you?!"
"It's really me, Master Ye, I found you." Wu Chilin cried bitterly.
"Quick, come in and talk." Xiang Nan let Wu Chilin into the room, and then told Uncle Wang, "Hurry up and make a bowl of brown sugar water, and serve those buns hot."
When Uncle Wang heard this, he hurried to go.
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"Wu Chi Lin, why did you come here? What happened to you?" Xiang Nan looked at Wu Chi Lin and couldn't help but feel distressed.
Seeing that Wu Chi Lin was as thin as a monkey, his skin stuck to his bones. A whole body of tattered clothes, patch after patch, still covered with grass clippings and dirt, looks like a beggar.
"When the Dongyang people attacked Wuyang, I wanted to escape. But I didn't expect that the Dongyang people came so fast, they blocked the road and blocked me back.
After that, they robbed my tea house, ransacked the whole city, and took away valuables, food, and livestock. My younger brother has no choice but to dig coal for others in the coal mine and make a living.
After that, the Dongyang people blocked the traffic all the time. My brother and I wanted to come to you, but we never had a chance. It wasn't until a few days ago that the Japanese finally loosened their grip, and my brother and I set out on the road together.
Unexpectedly, when I walked to Zhongshan, I still met the maintenance meeting. My brother and I ran away in all directions, but we got separated, and I was the only one who broke through. "
Xiang Nan couldn't help sighing when he heard it.
He wanted to say something, but when the words came to his lips, there was still only a long sigh left.
(end of this chapter)