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In the south of the Yangtze River estuary, Shanghai, the largest city in China known as the Paris of the East, was also under the shadow of the Japanese army and gradually lost its former prosperity.
Since the opening of the port in the 23rd year of Daoguang (1843), Shanghai, a city under the rule of Western powers for nearly a hundred years, has been in a state of high prosperity. No matter how the outside world changes, it can never affect this paradise. world of flowers.
The chaos in the land of China has intensified the prosperity here - countless foreign capitals have opened banks and foreign firms here, plundered China's resources, dumped their commodities to exploit and squeeze China's economy, and regarded China as a lamb for their huge wealth .
A large number of rich Chinese, political leaders who have withdrawn from the stage of history, and warlords who have lost power have entered Shanghai, or lived in seclusion, or spent the rest of their lives in this colorful world.
Gangsters are growing rapidly and using various means to plunder wealth in order to occupy a place in this colorful world. While establishing a huge and low order, they also use their own methods to contribute to this prosperity.
Dancing girls, beggars, coolies, businessmen, killers, gangsters All kinds of people integrate their lives with this colorful world and inject a little vitality into it.
? At that time, Shanghai Bund was the paradise in the minds of all dream chasers and gold diggers.
Unfortunately, with the artillery fire of the Japanese army, this heavenly city suffered the first heavy blow since its establishment. The Japanese army occupied this largest city in the Far East at the cost of 60,000 casualties. The evacuation of workers, progressive students, and patriots made this bustling city suddenly a bit depressed. Fortunately, the essence of Shanghai is still there, and the leases of other countries have not been affected. Dance as usual, horses run as usual, and the hotel sings and sings every night.
At the same time, this paradise has also become a paradise for anti-Japanese forces of all parties. The Central Committee, the Military Command, and the Underground Party successively established contact stations in the concession, actively engaged in activities, collected intelligence, raised funds, supplies, and medicines, and assassinated pro-Japanese traitors. It was like inserting a sharp knife into the heart of the Japanese invaders.
But all this was also very short-lived. After the outbreak of the European War in 1940, Japan, which joined the Axis camp, took the opportunity to capture the French Concession in Shanghai. In December 1941, after declaring war on the United States, the Japanese army launched an attack on the British and American concessions. The once high-ranking foreign adults were reduced to prisoners, and even British and American diplomats were arrested by the Japanese army. With the fall of the "isolated island of the Anti-Japanese War", the whole of Shanghai fell into the hands of the Japanese army, trembling under their despotic power.
The Japanese army enforced iron-fisted rule in Shanghai, sealed up foreign-funded banks and foreign firms, listed food, cloth, medicine and other livelihood materials as controlled materials and prohibited items, enforced military control, and prohibited private trading. A devastating plunder to Shanghai's economy.
The Japanese army also arrested a large number of progressives and agents, destroyed the liaison stations and traffic stations established by various forces in Shanghai, and vowed to uproot all anti-Japanese forces in Shanghai. They all went underground, and all kinds of activities gradually slowed down, not daring to compete with the Japanese.
The once infinitely prosperous Greater Shanghai fell into a period of extreme depression. Even Huangpu Beach, known as Shiliyangchang, has become increasingly deserted.
But recently, this situation has changed. Suddenly, some new shops opened on Huangpu Beach. These shops are nothing special. They are nothing more than ordinary shops such as department stores and dim sum shops. Novelty goods, such as American silk stockings, Parisian perfumes, British soaps, Swiss watches, German household appliances and some new-style pastries, all the things you have never seen, heard or heard are in these shops They are sold here.
Although these things are expensive and can be called luxury goods, they still attract the attention of countless people as soon as they appear, and most of them are rich people. From ancient times to the present, rich people like to pursue New things and luxury goods, on the one hand, are to show their unique identity, buy whatever is novel and expensive, and on the other hand, it is because they are used to good things. After the Japanese army implemented material control in Shanghai Bund, Even if they have money, they can't buy the things they used to use before, which makes it difficult for them to adapt for a while.
So as soon as the news spread, there were countless rich businessmen, politicians, famous nobles, ladies and wives, dancing girls and ladies, who came to shop for purchases, and some ordinary people also ran here. Although they couldn't afford the things in the shop, they all wanted to see it. Look, after all, watching the excitement is a habit rooted in the bones of the Chinese people.
For a while, Huangpu Beach was crowded with people, showing signs of returning to its former prosperity.
It's not early in the morning, and several shops have just openedThere was a long queue at the gate, and all kinds of cars and rickshaws were parked on both sides of the street, which almost caused traffic jams in Huangpu Beach in the 1940s.
Some clever hawkers saw the business opportunities, and immediately set up stalls around the shop, selling tea and snacks, while earning money, while admiring the delicate faces and graceful figures of those ladies and wives. The female family members of high-ranking officials, and the rest are some high-level dancers and courtesans. These people are either pretty, dignified, charming, or celestial. In short, it is like a large show, with beauties of various styles and types.
I saw these hawkers almost watching to collect money. Fortunately, these people are not the ones who evade orders. They put the money on the table after eating, and most of them will give more. While feasting their eyes, the hawker can also earn more than usual, and his eyes and eyes are beaming with joy.
A series of black Dodge cars stopped by the side of the road, and a man and woman in rich clothes got out of the car. When the people around saw this pair of men and women, they couldn't help frowning¡ªthis was too incongruous, it was simply Real-life Beauty and the Beast.
The man looked to be in his 50s, and he was very short, at most only in his early 15s. He also looked very wretched, with a bald head, a garlic nose, and a toad mouth. Two triangular eyes kept running around in his eye sockets. Seeing those ladies and wives showing lewd eyes makes people feel sick at first glance. The woman standing next to him is only in her early 20s, with a good face and a tall and straight figure. They are stunning, but when the two stand together, they still form a huge contrast.
When the man saw the long line at the door, he frowned immediately: 'It's only ten o'clock, why are there so many people? "
The woman next to him immediately said: "This is normal. You don't know how tight the goods are here. Rich people from all over Shanghai come here to buy things. There are only so few people. We are lucky." .¡±
The man didn't say anything more, and stretched out his hand to signal a bodyguard to line up, while he led the woman to the food stall next to him.
Seeing these two people, the peddler murmured in his heart: "Hey, another good cabbage was overwhelmed by a pig!" On the surface, he greeted the two of them very enthusiastically to sit down. I can only discuss it with two girls who are dressed as rich ladies, and let this couple share the table with them.
The two rich ladies were very open-minded, and they agreed with a nod. After the man sat down, he ordered a few snacks, and then looked up at the crowd around him.
At this time, I heard the two rich ladies say: "I heard that the department store has another batch of perfumes, pure Parisian products, and there are several kinds of scents alone!"
"Really? Then let's buy a few more bottles of each fragrance. His products are selling fast. I didn't buy those soaps last time."
"By the way, I heard that there is a kind of silk stockings that girls look good in. How about we buy some this time?"
"I must buy it. At the last dance, Xu Qianqian and the others only wore one pair, and they stole all the limelight. This time we will buy a few more, and we will steal the limelight back no matter what."
The two girls were chatting about what they wanted to buy, but the man suddenly asked, "Excuse me, are all the things you discussed just now sold in this department store? Are there other things besides these? "
The girl glanced at the man and said generously: "Yes, besides the things we mentioned, there are many more, such as creams, facial cleansers, shower gels, many, many, these things are now Miss Shanghai Beach . ladies baby. "
The man continued to ask: "Although I don't know what these things you are talking about later, they must be imported goods like silk stockings and soaps! But now Japan has declared war with European and American countries, and all trade is being suppressed." Stop, how did they buy these things, these things are not fake, right?"
The girl glanced around and whispered, "Absolutely not. We are used to things like perfume and soap. If they are fake, we can tell at a glance. The products sold in this department store are better than those before. The quality of the watch is even better, and it is impossible to imitate it with the technology of our country. A few days ago, one of my classmates bought a mechanical watch in this store as a birthday present for his father. After receiving it, my father, who had studied, always praised the quality of the watch, which was better than any he had seen in Switzerland.¡±
The man thought for a while, and then asked: "Are these commodities expensive?"
"It was a little more expensive than before, but it's still within an acceptable range." The girl said.
"Then" The two chatted with questions and answers.
A man sitting at the leader's table suddenly put down his half-eaten snacks, got up and paid the bill, then walked towards the alley next to him, then limped into the back door of the department store, then walked into the manager's office, facing The middle-aged man behind the table said: "Team leader, it's not good. The spy chief of the Mei Agency, Qingshui Dong San, is here. He is sitting at the food stall at the door with two girls, asking about the condition of our goods. It's probably Ben. Come with us." (Remember this site URL: www.hlnovel.com)A man sitting at the leader table suddenly put down his half-eaten snacks, stood up and paid the bill, then walked towards the alley next to him, then limped into the back door of the department store, then walked into the manager's office, facing The middle-aged man behind the table said: "Team leader, it's not good. The spy chief of the Mei Agency, Qingshui Dong San, is here. He is sitting at the food stall at the door with two girls, asking about the condition of our goods. It's probably Ben. Come with us." (Remember this site URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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