The people don't know what's going on. In fact, it is the Peace Club group headed by Mr. Wang who should be held responsible.
They accounted for a high proportion in the government. Under the suppression of their public opinion, the Republic of China government hesitated and finally ordered the Shanghai Municipal Government to issue a compromise statement.
The appeasement forces headed by Mr. Wang once had the upper hand in the Republic of China government. Mr. Chiang, who was swinging from side to side, temporarily lost his sense of direction and made the decision to make concessions to the Japanese.
As soon as Lu Ming returned to the apartment with Mingzhu, he received a call from the US Consulate, informing him to meet at the US Consulate if necessary. Once the war got out of control, the US would immediately start evacuation operations.
There are now American warships parked on the Huangpu River, which can evacuate the expatriates in Shanghai and nearby areas back to the United States as soon as possible.
Hearing the news, Yuan Mingzhu panicked: "Lu Ming, is Shanghai really unsafe? If not, let's go to the United States."
"Don't worry, Wanguo Apartment is as safe a place as the British and American Concessions. Evacuation is just a precautionary measure taken by the consulate." Lu Ming consoled him.
Yuan Mingzhu suddenly hugged Lu Ming and said, "Lu Ming, I'm worried about you. I can't let anything happen to you."
Lu Ming also hugged Yuan Mingzhu and felt her body trembling slightly and her voice trembling.
"I won't go out today. I will stay with you at home. We will go out to play later."
Lu Ming called Kang Ze and said that there were some things at home that needed to be dealt with, and then asked if there was anything urgent at the club.
Kang Ze expected that Lu Ming wanted to move his family to a safe place to solve his worries, which was natural.
Kang Ze told Lu Ming that the main task today was to contact the police station to discuss how to provide a covert identity for the owners of Blue Clothes Club and to establish a household registration file in the police station.
Creating household registration files for everyone is also a difficult technical task. If all the members of the Blue Clothes Club created their files on the same day, there would be no need to hide anything. It is obvious that there is no silver 300 taels here.
Therefore, the establishment of files must not only be distributed in the jurisdiction of each branch, but also set up on different dates, and a complete background that can withstand strict verification needs to be established for each person.
All cadres of the Lanyi Society cannot stay in Shanghai and need to be dispersed to surrounding areas, such as Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Xiaoshan, Fuyang and other areas.
They decided to set up two agencies. One agency was moved to Jiaxing under the leadership of Kang Ze. Jiaxing was chosen because it could get strong assistance from the Caobang, which was helpful for covering various underground groups.
Kang Ze set up a headquarters in Jiaxing to command all groups except Shanghai.
All teams under the agency remaining in Shanghai are under the command and coordination of Lu Ming. Lu Ming has the dual identity of an American citizen and a special correspondent of the Washington Post as a cover, making it easier to travel around Shanghai and communicate.
These are also the preliminary plans they discussed last night, and now they are going to further improve and implement this preliminary plan.
When planning this plan to go underground, everyone realized a problem: they had not established cover agencies such as companies or businesses in the surrounding areas and nearby cities and counties, nor had they purchased private houses as safe houses and contact points.
While safe houses and contact points can be solved with the help of reliable informants, there are still some pitfalls.
If you want to establish a cover company or business, and purchase many properties to serve as safe houses and contact points, you will need a huge amount of funds.
Of course, this is not a particularly urgent matter. Lu Ming still firmly believes that this incident is low-intensity and controllable. Muto revealed the Japanese military plan to him through Kenta in advance, which is proof that Japan is more afraid than China that the situation will develop out of control.
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Lu Ming drove Yuan Mingzhu to Shanghai Hongqiao Park, hoping to relax her mind. People in the park were still as relaxed as before, with children playing happily, running and jumping, and old people basking in the sun.
"Peace is so good, I don't understand why the Japanese want to die." Lu Ming sighed.
He thought of Kenta. It was here that Kenta said that day: Anyone who initiates a war is a criminal and an anti-humanist element, regardless of any reason or excuse.
Lu Ming had a deeper understanding of this sentence at this moment. The sunshine and the bloody world are two completely different worlds, but they are both created by man.
When she came to the park and felt the joyful atmosphere of the people around her, Yuan Mingzhu also relaxed. She ran after some women holding babies and teased the babies wrapped in swaddling clothes.
"Lu Ming, I regret it." She said to Lu Ming.
"What do you regret?" Lu Ming guessed that she was aroused by those cute babies.
"I regret that time we escaped from home. I want to get married now." Yuan Mingzhu said to Lu Ming sincerely with her face raised.
"Okay, we will get married when the situation calms down." Lu Ming kissed her on the forehead.
"If we had gotten married back then, our child would be that old now." Yuan Mingzhu said, pointing to a boy about one year old.
"Yeah, almost." Lu Ming looked at this toddler and babbling child and also smiled.
Although it was not a good idea to have children in troubled times, Lu Ming still saw Yuan Mingzhu's desire. It was not so much that she was longing for marriage, but that she was longing for a child of her own.
"Do you like boys or girls?" Yuan Mingzhu asked.
"Anything is fine, as long as it's yours and it's healthy." Lu Ming shrugged.
"What do you mean by this? It seems that I can secretly have children with others." Yuan Mingzhu didn't want to hear it.
"That's not what I meant, you were deliberately trying to find fault." Lu Ming said with a bitter smile.
Yuan Mingzhu was angry for a while and then laughed. She also knew that Lu Ming would never doubt her.
But she still felt a little entangled in her heart. The world was not peaceful, and it must be very difficult for a child to face such a troubled world.
Although the two of them spent a lot of time together, they didn't spend much time together alone. They were basically with Zhang Ziyang, Sheng Muyi and Yuan Ziyuan, as well as Cai Lian and Ning Xiner.
Therefore, there was almost no discussion about getting married and having children, as if they were already a family and did not need to think about getting married.
At noon they went to the Chinachem Hotel for dinner. It was still a scene of peace and prosperity, luxury and wealth.
Lu Ming also met many familiar people, most of whom were members of various foreign correspondents' clubs.
Many of them met Yuan Mingzhu for the first time and came over to say hello. Lu Ming also generously introduced his fiancée to everyone.
"Lu, to use a Chinese saying, you are like a hidden beauty in a golden house." Tess, a reporter from The Times, said with some jealousy.
"That's right, Lu, where do you usually hide your fiancée?" A colleague from the "Washington Post" also joked.
Lu Ming was stunned for a moment, and then realized that these people regarded the social scene in Shanghai as social circles like New York, Paris, and London.
In Europe and the United States, celebrities and socialites like to attend various social occasions and strive for exposure. It is best to soak in a sea of people.
Chinese people still like to be low-key and reserved, and socialites in Shanghai also try their best to avoid appearing in major social occasions. They have their own social circles or various salons, which are all small-scale, and not everyone who wants to see them can see them.
As for the famous ladies who shine in various social occasions, apart from actresses, they are the lotus-picking sisters. Foreign reporters did not understand and mistakenly regarded these social butterflies as famous ladies.
He also did not explain that this involves fundamental differences between Chinese and Western cultures, which is difficult to explain and difficult for Europeans and Americans to understand.
Several female reporters pulled Yuan Mingzhu to their table, and several male reporters naturally sat with Lu Ming.
"Lu, do you think this Sino-Japanese dispute will really trigger a war?" a colleague from the Washington Post asked.
"This actually depends on the attitudes of the British and American governments. If the two governments resolutely do not allow a war to occur in Shanghai, there will be no war here." Lu Ming pointed out sternly.
"You overestimate our government. Let me tell you, we don't even know how to clean up the mess in our country. Plus, with the election approaching, there is no time to worry about Asia." A colleague from the Washington Post shrugged.
He smiled bitterly.
Lu Ming understood that this colleague was referring to the poor economic situation in the United States.