According to statistics, before the war began, there were more than 1.2 million people in the Shanghai Concession, of which more than 400,000 were in the French Concession. However, as the war began, a large number of ordinary people entered the concession.
One month after the Songhu War broke out, Shanghai's "Shenbao" published an article saying: 500,000 refugees have entered the Shanghai Concession.
At the same time, because Shanghai Beach is very famous, many people think that it is full of gold, so people from Jiangsu, Anhui and other places are also coming continuously, wanting to make money in the concession.
However, there are places full of gold in this world, so these people have also become refugees.
However, in the concession, after seeing the influx of so many refugees, they were worried about infectious diseases and loss of order, so they said they did not welcome refugees.
Under this situation, French priest Rao Jiaju in Shanghai took the initiative and went to the then mayor of Shanghai, Yu. After many negotiations and exchanges between the two parties, Mayor Yu finally agreed to designate a designated area on the beach to expand the admission of refugees.
But at that time, Shanghai was no longer the only country that had the final say. The Songhu War had already begun, and the Chinese army was slowly falling into a disadvantage.
Therefore, after seeking Mayor Yu's consent, Rao Jiaju approached Japanese Consul General Okamoto Yoshimasa and put forward his own opinions and ideas.
At that time, Rao Jiaju's reason for persuading Okamoto Yoshimasa was that the Japanese must have the support of local foreigners and Chinese in order to establish order.
Besides, there are public concessions and French concessions in Shanghai, and the media is mature after all, so the extreme behavior of the Japanese army may be accompanied by media reports and cause negative international impact.
Therefore, agreeing to accept refugees can reduce the bad impression of them internationally for Japan.
Okamoto Ji also carefully considered the situation he mentioned, and finally agreed to Rao Jiaju's proposal to establish a safe zone.
With the agreement of both China and Japan, the Shanghai South Refugee Zone was officially established on November 9, 1937.
After the establishment of the refugee zone, public places of all sizes, such as churches, schools, public offices and restaurants, were immediately transformed into refugee shelters and relief centers.
Because there were so many refugees, the refugee area was divided into nine districts. Each district set up a point to distribute rice and other supplies. Most of the refugees were impoverished and could only rely on rice, beans, and dry rice from the aid.
Pickles for a living.
However, because the number of refugees is so huge, the food donations received can only last for a certain period of time.
At this time, many wealthy people in Shanghai also knew about the situation, either sincerely serving the people or seeking fame, but they all donated money to the refugee area, and the situation gradually improved.
If we say that one’s deeds do not matter one’s heart, there are actually many good people in this world, as you can see from this incident.
It is precisely because of this that the church shelter has persisted in Shanghai. However, because the people here are all refugees, it is also a mixed bag.
Moreover, refugees come and go wherever there is food, so they never stay in the same shelter permanently, so the mobility between them is very high.
Therefore, Nie Hanyi and one of his confidants also pretended to be refugees and stayed in the church shelter for more than a day.
Nie Hanyi was not an idiot. After separating from Zhang Guoxin, he actually realized that if there wasn't something fishy about why the Japanese bombed the hospital so quickly, he wouldn't believe it.
So this time he only brought one of his cronies, who was also his relatives, to the church shelter. As for the other members of the team, he arranged to find those who robbed banks, bombed hospitals, and killed people in the concession in broad daylight.
The murderer is gone.
After all, aren’t the people in the entire concession doing this now? Naturally, the people under him can do this too!
"Damn it, if I had known that the food in this church shelter was like this, I would have eaten when I was full." Nie Han felt like he was going to vomit when he looked at the porridge that was full of water in the bowl.
Since he came here disguised as a refugee, he has had three meals of porridge filled with water, and now he feels like vomiting just looking at the porridge.
The key is that this thing is not very hungry at all!
Of course, how can you be full by drinking water?
So it’s no wonder those refugees, most of them found a warm place to lie down after eating, they really didn’t dare to move!
Because if they move more, they will get hungry quickly.
When a person is hungry, the feeling is that his eyes will actually turn red.
Therefore, at this time, Nie Hanyi could finally understand why some people eat soil, tree bark, and grass.
He even felt that if he continued like this, within three days, as soon as he saw something edible, his first reaction might be to eat it.
"Cousin, don't you want to eat?" While he was holding the bowl in a daze, the policeman dressed as a refugee with him had already finished the porridge in his bowl, and then looked at Nie Hanyi with shining eyes.
"Who said I don't want to eat?" Nie Hanyi saw the look in his "cousin's" eyes and knew what he wanted to do, so he hurriedly replied and drank the porridge in the bowl without hesitation.
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You know, although this thing doesn't matter if you're hungry, if you don't eat it, you'll get hungry faster!
So even if there are 10,000 moms selling batches in my heart, there is still no delay in speaking.
Even after drinking, Nie Hanyi stuck out his tongue and licked the bowl again.
This is something that every refugee here will do, and Nie Hanyi has naturally learned it. Of course, at this time, he will not let go of anything in the bowl and cannot waste food.
Even after licking the bowl, it looked very clean and there was no need to wash it at all.
Looking at Nie Hanyi's clean bowl, the "cousin" sitting next to him also lowered his head.
Alas, I am also crazy, and I would suffer this crime with my own leader!
However, seeing his leader acting like this, he felt a little more comforted and didn't say anything more.
"I calculated that this shelter admitted a total of 82 people yesterday and today, but 43 people left. This means that the permanent population of this shelter is about 230 people."
"But among these 230 people, there are about one-fifth of the floating population. This is a very dangerous thing! The murderer is probably looking for targets in this place." Nie Hanyi looked at the people who drank nothing but water.
After eating porridge, he found a place to lie down, and then whispered to his "cousin".