Chapter 601 : Chapter 321: The Great Hunt in Shanghai (Part 2) (1)
[Volume 57] Chapter 601: Chapter 321 Shanghai Chasing (Part 1)
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Chapter 321 Shanghai Chase (Central)
Shanghai has a long history and has a historical record of more than two thousand years in China's history. -Shou-fae Shanghai, which was under the jurisdiction of the Wu Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period, and was granted a fief of Shen Chunjun of the Chu Kingdom during the Warring States Period, and began to build cities and establish troops.
Bing means the origin of Shencheng! Shencheng is the earliest city in Shanghai.
Later, the site of Shencheng City changed several times, and the place name had been changed many times. After the Opium War in 1840, almost all important coastal port cities in China were forced to detach concessions or completely ceded, and Shanghai was no exception. In 1842, the Kingdom of Great Britain was forced to
Qing Zhengfu signed the Treaty of Nanjing, listing Shanghai as one of the five trading ports. The blood sacrifice of the mountains and rivers of the Anti-Japanese War 60121
After that, imperialists such as the United States, France, Russia, Japan, Italy, Germany, and Austria successively forced their concessions in Shanghai. Shanghai was promoted as a "paragraph for adventurers" in the East and was robbed by imperialism.
But at the same time, the concession provided the so-called protection of the national extrajudicial power, which was free from the invasion and interference of Qing government, warlords and historical wars, and a relatively free and safe environment, coupled with the convenience of being a free trade port, Shanghai's various national industries and
The economy has developed rapidly.
Shanghai's free and open environment attracted a large number of merchants, nobles, literati, poets, revolutionaries, etc. from all over the country and the world. By the beginning of the 20th century, Shanghai became the economic and cultural center of China and the financial and trade center of Asia at that time, and the National Civil Affairs.
Fuyu set up a special city in 1927.
However, now this is the world where Japanese spies are rampant. Gao Fei, who is dressed in suit and tie and sunglasses, sits in the Aiman Cafe in the French Concession, and tastes it carefully. He can't taste it at all.
coffee.
The concession means shame to the Chinese, but the concession also provides unlimited opportunities for China's revolutionary cause. For example, the Kuomintang members who overthrew the Qing Dynasty mostly used the concession as a cover, and the first representative of China's **
The conference was also held in the concession. If there were no concessions, how many revolutionary patriots would have sacrificed for no reason? However, the concession is a symbol of shame in China and even the entire nation, and the contradictions between them cannot be explained clearly for a while.
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The various pedestrians on the streets did not have the grief and anger of the destruction slaves that they had expected to fly high before? Everything seemed very natural? The French Concession, the British Concession, the American Concession, and the public Concession seemed to be paradise? Singing, dancing, and the Japanese were
Heng could only be proud outside the concession! But Gao Fei knew clearly that such heartless good days may not last long!
The concession is completely different from the colonial cemetery. The main feature of the concession is internal autonomous management. It does not send a governor to the leased country, but establishes a municipal management agency, the Industrial Bureau, and serves as municipal, taxation, police, engineering, transportation, health, and public utilities.
, education, publicity and other functions, as well as the dual functions of Western city councils and city halls, so most of the people walking on the streets in the French Concession are Chinese, while French police officers are rare to show up.
Soon, Gao Fei waited for the temporary responsibility of the Military Control Commission Shanghai Station. Shen Mingyang, code-named Qiufeng, was the general manager of the Wanguo Foreign Company in the Concession. In other words, he was the comprador who made money from the national crisis. This identity allowed Shen Mingyang to be with the Japanese and traitors.
Chapter completed!