Chapter 364

Violence is becoming more frequent, explosions more frequent.

At this point it was necessary to recognize that there were too many rich, knowledgeable, and competent people in the city. Bombs seemed to be some kind of window candy that everyone with money could have a piece of.

Molotov cocktails, gasoline bombs, and choking are all out of fashion.

In such an environment, no one thought – New Year is here.

A holiday that symbolizes joy and reunion seems a bit overly out of place.

Before the New Year, Mr. Zhang and Miss Zhao left. Su Chunjun personally went to see Zhao Shuli off.

Duke Zhang did not refuse to take Zhao Shuli with him, and it was clear that they knew each other before.

Some of the people with more familiar connections also hitched a ride on Mr. Zhang’s big boat and took advantage of the situation to leave the increasingly dangerous volcano.

After sending off Mr. Zhang, Su Chunjun and Zhu Yuyan’s lives continued as usual.

Zhao Shuli is missing from their table, but there is still a Chen driver and a few staff members.

Mr. Su’s work is said to be unaffected, but he is coming back to bed later and later, sometimes staying at the telegraph all night.

The telegraph was in their bedroom.

Zhu Yuyan also has a new course, “Communication and Management”.

She learns to send and translate telegrams.

She also finally realized that nowadays cipher telegrams are not only in the famous Morse code.

Su Chunjun also gave her a handwritten code book to memorize – not memorize, no one can memorize this stuff.

When Su Chunjun gave it to her, he said, “This is a task entrusted to you by the Party and the State.”

Zhu Yuyan instantly collapsed on the sofa with a laugh, “Party State?”

The party state that threw them and the entire city all over the place?

Su Chunjun rolled his eyes and pulled her up, he didn’t really care about her attitude as she had always acted like she despised the Kuomintang in private, often either mocking or being sarcastic.

Su Chunjun himself didn’t care, and didn’t ask her to pay attention, mainly because he thought Yan Yan was very smart, she always knew how to behave in front of outsiders, and this part of her truth was only revealed in front of him.

The first time I saw her, I was so happy to see her, and I was so happy to see her, and I was so happy to see her, and I was so happy to see her, and I was so happy to see her, and I was so happy to see her.

In the past, he and Zhao Shuli were the two people who kept the telegraph, but now he is the only one, he can only let Zhu Yuyan come, the two people take turns to ensure that the telegraph is always in the protection, will not miss any telegram.

Zhu Yuyan also learned the principles and structure of the telegraph, so as to prevent her from not being able to find the manpower to repair it in case of problems.

Originally, if she was exposed to this kind of thing, she would have needed to join a party – the Kuomintang.

Su Chunjun mentioned it once, and she said, “Get lost.”

He never mentioned it again.

Anyway, it was just the two of them now, and no one cared if they didn’t join.

In Su Chunjun’s absence, she also recorded telegrams and translated messages. It turned out that there wasn’t really much that was important, part of it was the need for Su Chunjun to report regularly – simply a reminder to report on time at what time and what minute the next time around.

Su Chunjun said, “This is to prevent the telegraph from falling into other people’s hands. If I don’t show up at this time next time, the opposite side will know that I am in distress.”

The other thing was to ask Su Chunjun to provide some intelligence, such as American intelligence, Japanese intelligence, German intelligence, and so on.

Zhu Yuyan asked him, “Do you know so much intelligence?”

Su Chunjun: “Some I know, some I don’t. I would ask the people in the intelligence section to give me a report and then report what they reported.”

He had never mentioned these things to her before.

She hadn’t asked either.

The reason for not asking was that she felt that the trust between her and him was high enough that she believed he would never do anything that would make it difficult for her to accept, and then there was no need to search for the root of every single thing he did.

The other thing was that she was actually quite busy.

Taking the time to help him listen to the telegram aside, she also had to continue to open the Mrs. Afternoon Tea and Mrs. Mahjong Table, participate in more charity activities, calling on everyone to help those around them more, give a little bit of goodwill, don’t be evil, and maintaining social peace requires our common efforts and so on and so forth.

It is hard to say how much this kind of voice can help, but it must not be absent!

So now that the social situation is getting worse and worse, she is appearing more and more in public, making public speeches and public lectures to uplift people’s spirits and morale.

Assassinations against her have certainly appeared, the most frequent being the throwing of exploding bottles and grenades into the road while the cars are coming.

But she couldn’t stay away, I should say that now she had to stand out as a symbol.

To tell the people that the leader in this city was still there and had not run away.

Even if she couldn’t actually do anything, it would be courageous for her to stand up and be seen.

The topics of the charity speeches are all vague things. Protecting women and children, loving the family, men should protect their wives and children, men should be filial to their parents, and so on, with an emphasis on men’s status and presence in society.

This was completely different from the later generations that emphasized women’s responsibility to society.

When Zhu Yuyan was in school, Prof. Dai once gave a lecture on the topic of “Male Society”.

The title was very straightforward and the content was very simple to understand, that is, a male society.

It is a male-dominated society, in which there are no women, children or elderly people, and the latter three are neglected and forgotten in social roles, and only men have a sense of existence in the whole society.

This is the same in both China and the West.

In the West, before the steam revolution, women did not have the right to own property, which was reflected in the fact that women could not open bank accounts, could not sue in court in their own name, and of course, they did not have to pay taxes.

It’s a little clearer to measure it in terms of tax rights.

The fact that you can pay taxes means that you have a job, you have an income, and you have to pay taxes.

Women don’t have to pay taxes, so they have no property rights. Of course they have a dowry, but the dowry can only be placed in the hands of male relatives or friends, such as land, houses, stores, etc., and they can use it, they can inherit these fixed properties, but they cannot run them, they can only be given to male relatives or friends to run them on their behalf, such as brothers, cousins, husbands, uncles and nephews, etc., and if they don’t have any close relatives, they can also go to lawyers, so in the West, wealthy women have been cheated by lawyers or relatives out of their So in the West, there are many cases of rich women being cheated by lawyers or relatives and losing all their money.

In the West, there are many cases of wealthy women being cheated out of their money by lawyers or relatives.

But on the flip side, men are responsible for paying taxes from birth. Throughout history, men have been the only option for all kinds of taxed labor.

In times of plenty, men enjoyed a great deal of social advantages, but in turbulent times like now, men have to take on social responsibilities instead of the state.

It is no longer safe in the cities, there are riots everywhere, not enough police, not enough government authority.

Zhu Yuyan’s speech began to emphasize the need for men to stand up in place of the police and the government to protect their families and neighbors.

Force can only be fought with force.

She was making it clear that the people had better gather together, take up arms in their hands, and protect themselves and their families.

There was no more stopping about the Japanese coming into the city.

The New Year’s banquet – hosted by Su Chunjun – was held at the Feng family residence.

Many people, either on commission or as a group, approached him to “whisper” to him.

The content of these “whispers” was that they hoped the Japanese soldiers could protect them.

Zhu Yuyan also received similar whispers.

Some people began to support the Japanese soldiers’ entry into the city.

There was definitely a Japanese lead here.

But it’s also true that some people are moving.

Because the situation is getting worse.

Social unrest was increasing, and the people who were most vulnerable were the rich people, who lived in big houses, who were already bigger targets, who could be easily approached.

So doesn’t it make sense?

Most of the rich people in the city are concentrated in the Concession, and there really aren’t many rich people still living outside the Concession.

But the Japanese have chosen not to enter the Concession yet. It’s not that they don’t want to get in, they just don’t think the time is right yet.

So what kind of mentality are these rich Chinese who come to pass the word. Anyway, the Japanese can’t harm them if they come in?

Su Chunjun sat on the sofa, tugged his tie loose, and cursed unhappily, “They’re trying to wag their tails at the Japanese.”

It was indeed chilling that the Chinese chose to side with the Japanese to corner him. But to those on the other side, this was just another bet, whichever side was strong would fall to whichever side, and since the Japanese were strong enough, wasn’t it normal to show their favor in advance?

Mr. Zhang even ran away!

No one thinks Su Chunjun can still hold out and for how long.

Either he listens to the Japanese, or he gets assassinated.

Zhu Yuyan poured him a cup of coffee and put a stick of cinnamon in to stir.

There was no more sugar, and the people had found something to replace it, cinnamon. It came with its own sweet flavor. It could be added to tea, coffee, and desserts.

It’s hard to say whether it was the foreigners who discovered it first or the Chinese people who discovered it first. She was taught by a madam when she was running a madam’s tea party, and that madam said that there was no more sugar or snacks in the house, and the children took cinnamon bark to chew on as sugar.

That madam laughed and said, “The stuff for cooking at home told her to find it and eat it as sugar, it’s really no good.”

And in the American reports translated from the pictorials, there were also American wives who cleverly used cinnamon to sweeten cookies.

Zhu Yuyan followed the good advice and started using cinnamon as well.

She passed the tea to Su Chunjun and said, “Then pick a tenement for the Japanese. See if they can chew it down.”

Since they couldn’t stop them, let them dog-eat-dog first.