Chapter 437

The railway station in the north of the city had been under the control of the Japanese.

The Japanese had placed at least one company of men here, and a strong attack was obviously unrealistic.

Su Chunjun had been eager to break through the Japanese blockade and take back this train station!

However, as there was a large group of ordinary people staying around the train station all year round, they were guarding the station with their luggage and small families, trying to “sneak out” by all means.

Although it was almost impossible to succeed in stealing a train, the people remained here with a one-in-a-million chance.

The Japanese, however, obviously intended to let the people as a meat shield before not driving them away.

Because of this, Su Chunjun’s plans were all hindered by his fear of the people.

Zhu Yuyan’s method is much simpler than his, that is, dollars to open the road, directly buy a road, send people away.

She has been doing this kind of thing before, collecting money to sell tickets, every train has a carriage that she bought with dollars, and through this she has sent many people away.

Lubricated by dollars, she had been working well with the Japanese at the train station.

She said now, “It would be possible to hide explosives* or *gas bombs in the boxes where the dollars were kept, but then the damage would be limited.” After all, it was unlikely that they would be able to find small and powerful explosives* right now.

Su Chunjun, “The scope of destruction is limited, so it’s better not to destroy it.” He shook his head, “I still haven’t figured out what to do now.”

Zhu Yuyan: “In short, it’s impossible to control the train station all the time, we can only capture it briefly for a while, maybe a few hours, and then the Japanese just need to increase their firepower, and they’ll take the train station back again.”

The lack of manpower was a big problem.

They lacked the manpower and weapons to fight for long periods of time.

Zhu Yuyan: “Why don’t we just get the money for the carriages to send the people away. I’ve already arranged for Shi Jingyi and the others to leave tomorrow afternoon. Stuff some more people in the same car.”

The conditions she gave the scalper were very lenient, basically allowing him to stuff people into the carriages at will.

Now it is even more to the drive, who want to enter the two carriages can be, do not charge money can go in, can be stuffed as much as full as stuffed.

Zhu Yuyan: “Even if we leave here and go outside, as long as the Japanese can control the railroad, we will still be caught if we escape. Why don’t we just use money to buy our way out.”

This was the most secure path at the moment.

In order to lower the ticket price, she had to put up the banner of “money collection”. For a while, the scalpers were all over the place, saying that the train tickets to the city had been reduced in price and were much cheaper.

When asked why, they said that Su and his wife might be short of money recently.

Zhu Yuyan doesn’t care, the train sends a dozen times a day, only less than ten times can take people, she buys two carriages for each train – not that she doesn’t want to buy more, it’s that the Japanese won’t sell them to her.

Two carriages can hold at least a thousand people, barely.

As a result of the price reduction, an interesting phenomenon has arisen: some Japanese have approached her to buy tickets.

Her intention was to give the green light to the Chinese, but she didn’t realize that the reduced fare would attract the poor Japanese as well.

Although in this city, the Japanese are first class people and the Chinese are second class. But the poor Japanese are not having a good time.

Japan has been encouraging Japanese to immigrate to China, with the idea of occupying Chinese cities with Japanese. Many poor Japanese who were so poor in Japan that they had no house or land came to China.

Then they realized that they could live more or less the same way as they did in Japan.

It was true that they could get land more easily than they could in Japan, but they soon realized that because they farmed, they were burdened with heavy taxes on their fields, and 80% of the food they grew had to be given to the Japanese military as military rations.

The money, of course, was a kind of paper money issued by the Japanese military. This kind of paper money, by the way, no one in the Chinese store dares not to accept it, and no Chinese merchant dares not to sell grain to the Japanese.

–But there was no grain in the Chinese stores.

So the poor Japanese took this paper money and went to the Japanese grain stores to buy grain.

The Japanese grain stores would dare not to sell them, and if they asked, they would say there was no food, but of course if you brought dollars, then there would be food.

The Japanese military was taxed on a per capita basis, and if they couldn’t collect the money, they would beat them up. In this regard, they were treated equally, Chinese and poor Japanese, they were beaten up equally.

The Japanese poor found that China is not as good as they said, the tax is as heavy as they said, and their stomachs are not full as well.

But they could not go back to Japan.

Because they came to China by order of the Emperor, and no one can go back to Japan without the Emperor’s order – except the rich.

Since they can’t go back to Japan and can’t survive in this city, of course the poor Japanese want to run away.

But they can’t afford the train fare.

Unlike the Chinese who can’t leave the city, the problem for the Japanese poor is that they can’t afford the tickets. Even though the train station is now owned by the Japanese, train tickets are not cheap at all. And the Japanese military is so good, they pay Japanese people in Japanese currency and collect money, all in US dollars.

Sterling, French francs, gold are all fine, just don’t want Japanese currency.

With this set, the Japanese military is regarded as the Japanese hands of valuable things to squeeze clean.

So when Zhu Yuyan’s special train for the Chinese dropped in fare, the Japanese poor suddenly realized that they could afford it!

So they flocked to buy tickets from scalpers.

Zhu Yuyan approached the scalpers to sell the tickets to spread the word, she didn’t tell the scalpers that they were only allowed to sell to the Chinese because she was trying to send the Chinese away.

Now, of course, there was no way to restrict the poor Japanese from buying tickets.

She asked Su Chunjun, “Do you think if there were more Japanese in the compartment, would the Japanese military not search too hard? Would they be concerned about Japanese lives?”

If so, it would be useful to use the poor Japanese as meat shields to protect the Chinese, so that the Japanese military would not be able to throw their weight around.

Su Chunjun shook his head and said, “Japan doesn’t have the tradition of loving the people like a son.”

Zhu Yuyan froze: “What?”

Su Chunjun: “Chinese emperors have the moral requirement of loving the people as one’s own son, and government officials everywhere have the moral pressure to love and pity the people. But Japan did not have this in their education, they only had to harness the people. Therefore, they should not be soft when they kill Japanese people.”

Zhu Yuyan was aware of this for the first time, and it really took her by surprise! Mainly because she didn’t expect the basic moral requirement of loving the people to be absent from the Japanese educational tradition.

But this also explains a lot of the phenomena that she used to find strange in Japan.

Su Chunjun: “There’s nothing you can do to stop the Japanese from buying tickets anyway, so just forget about it.”

Zhu Yuyan sighed, “It’ll have to do.”

In addition to the poor Japanese who came to buy tickets, there were also a few former “acquaintances” who came to see her.

One of them was the one who surprised Zhu Yuyan the most.

Yu Yingda.

She had long been unable to recall this character, this person should also be clear, deliberately wrote his own history, as well as the relationship with the Zhu family clearly, she remembered who this person is.

He was a “friend” of Director Liao and Mrs. Liao of the Fire Services Bureau who dealt with the Zhu family when she was still living in the Zhu Family Building.

Zhu Yuyan had heard Zhang Ma and Zhu Yanshu gossiping about this person, she did not quite understand at that time, but now she understands.

In the Liao family, Yu Yingda was supposed to do the work of a domestic servant.

He usually serves the master and the wife at home, and when guests come, he may even serve them.

I heard that he used to be from the theater troupe, will sing two folds of the opera.

The Liao family’s affairs have long since disappeared with Zhu Yanshu’s departure. Zhu Yuyan himself has not thought of this person for a long time, he now came to the door, but for a train ticket out of the city.

Seeing as it is an old friend of the family, Zhu Yuyan did not begrudge a ticket, and even for the sake of the family he may have, deliberately gave two more.

Yu Yingda got the note written by Zhu Yuyan’s hand and was overwhelmed with emotion.

He no longer looked as dashing and elegant as he did at that time.

Zhu Yuyan remembers that when he was in and out of the Zhu family, he either drove a Ford car or wore a suit, and his appearance was not inferior to that of Mr. Su.

He had a handsome life and was willing to spend money to create a look of a gentleman.

But now he looked like an old man.

His hair is white, his body is thin, and his clothes are old, not well-fitting, patched, and it’s already August/September, hot, and he’s still wearing a woolen undershirt with holes in it.

His hands are full of work wounds, looks like he should be doing hard labor.

Zhu Yuyan: “Mr. Yu, how is your life now? If you have any other difficulties, you can also tell me about them. You are like my elder, there is no need to be polite with anything.”

Yu Yingda was at a loss for words from the moment he came in and sat down, he was not holding the slightest hope that he would be able to come to Zhu Yuyan to open this mouth. Even being kicked out in front of the main door was normal.

As a result, this second young lady of that year, not only invited him in, but also gave him a seat, and also from his please, gave him a special approval of three tickets.

Not one, but three.

Second Miss has a good heart.

Ms. Zhu’s children are really well brought up, like her, noble in status, but never belittling people.

Back then, when he was pestered like that, Ms. Zhu never mouthed bad words to him, that is, she refused, but only avoided and gave him face.

When Yu Yingda heard Zhu Yuyan’s words again, he panicked and immediately stood up, waving his hands back and forth, “Second Miss, don’t say this! How could I have such a fortune? You can see me, is to give me face, I such a person, into your door, are dirty your ground.”

Zhu Yuyan: “If you want to say so, I’ll have no ground to honor myself. Back then you were also a guest of the Zhu family, which time you came, the Zhu family gave you anger suffered? I want to really throw you out, that is tantamount to disown the Zhu family’s old man, you are scolding me? Are you scolding me, or are you scolding the Zhu family for not teaching their children well? Sit down and talk. I’m not a big shot now, but I can still do small things. How’s your family? Three tickets, is that enough?”

Yu Yingda shook his head and laughed again, tears falling down in bunches.

He hurriedly wiped away the tears and said with a straight face, “Thank you for thinking of me. Back then, the Liao family had an accident, Mrs. Liao ran away with the child, Mr. Liao later smoked a big * smoked to death. I will find another job to do, just has not been able to take advantage of. The family had a concubine who also ran away. I live in that place, that area was occupied by the Japanese, I will find another place to live, these years, also can be mixed a belly full. Family and friends are not, fortunately, a person, where can live.”

This is the fate of most people in this city. Yu Yingda half a lifetime of savings calculations, all one day empty.

Zhu Yuyan sighed a few times, slipped him another ten dollars and took half a bag of corn for him to carry away.

She said: “Mr. Yu, your good fortune lies ahead. What you suffer now will be repaid to you later, God is watching, and will not let a good man suffer for the rest of his life.”

Yu Yingda looked at this child cherishingly, in his previous beautiful dream, he also thought about being the father of the two young ladies of Zhu family, and also thought that he could also live a good life with a wife and a daughter.

But in his life, that was all he would have. There would be no wife, no home, and no children to see him off.

When he dies, his eyes will be closed, and he will be a piece of stinking meat, melting away with the wind.

Yu Yingda thanked Zhu Yuyan again and again: ”Second Miss, you stay, stay. I’m leaving now, wishing your family peace and happiness and all the best. You don’t need to see me off, no need to see me off.”

He held the half bag of corn tightly in his arms and quickly walked away through the gate.