"Mr. Li, if you have nothing to do, please stay in Shanghai for a few more days and let me entertain you well. I still have many things to ask you for advice." After talking about the matter, Lu Ming was in a very happy mood and said with a smile.
"Thank you for your kindness. I have to leave Shanghai tomorrow. I still have many tasks to complete. Isn't it a national crisis now?" Mr. Li said.
"Oh, I see, it's a bit urgent. I originally wanted to prepare one million funds for you, but if it's so urgent, I can only raise 200,000. Do you want legal currency or silver dollars?" Lu Ming wanted to bring it to Mr. Li.
Paying some money and leaving can be regarded as a greeting gift.
"We really need money. I will tell you how to transfer it to us in the future. It won't work this time. I have to go through a large white area when I go back. Carrying too much money with me will arouse suspicion." Mr. Li laughed.
road.
"What's the matter? I'll send someone to escort you to your destination, no problem." Lu Ming said disapprovingly.
"Lu Ming, you have to remember that from now on, unless there is something particularly important, you cannot contact us, including our comrades in Shanghai. You can only contact us through the radio. This is to protect you. So you also
You cannot send anyone to escort me, this is an order." Mr. Li said seriously.
Lu Ming spread his hands and smiled bitterly: "Okay, I'll listen to you. When you get to your destination, you can tell me how to transfer the money to you. Don't worry, no one can trace the money to me."
Mr. Li also smiled: "I know, there is a big God of Wealth in Shanghai, Mr. Sheng, and there is a little God of Wealth, Lu Ming."
Lu Ming sighed: "Then according to your strict requirements, I can't send you off tomorrow."
"Yes, after you left this hotel, we didn't know each other and have never met. When the revolution succeeds, we can look back on this experience together." Mr. Li said with a smile.
Lu Ming left. What he didn't expect was that this was the first time he saw Mr. Li, but it was also the only time. He never saw Mr. Li again until one day he knew who Mr. Li was.
Who is so surprised?
In the evening, he went to the Liuyuan Garden and met Sheng Youde.
"Is Mu Yi okay there?" Lu Ming asked as soon as he saw Sheng Youde.
He has always been worried about Sheng Muyi's safety. It is said that the activities of Japanese spies are rampant in North China, and all celebrities are under their strict control.
"Don't worry. Although General Song Zheyuan has resigned as chairman of the Chahar Provincial Government, he still has military power in his hands and is very protective of Mu Yi."
Sheng Youde was well-known in the Republic of China government. Without him opening his mouth, the personal safety of everyone in the Sheng Group was guaranteed, not to mention that Miss Shanda was sent.
"Old man, will your layout in North China really work in the future? If North China falls and is occupied by the Japanese one day, won't all the layouts you have made be in vain?" Lu Ming couldn't understand Sheng Youde.
This move.
"My layout is aimed at the situation you mentioned. If North China can continue to be peaceful, I will not go to North China to grab the market. If North China is really occupied by the Japanese one day, with Sheng's reputation, I should be able to seize the market in North China.
Stand still, even if the Japanese occupy the territory, they will still need someone to cooperate in business, and the Sheng family will naturally be their first choice." Sheng Youde said with a smile.
"When the day comes, are you going to give up your original worth and cooperate with the Japanese?" Lu Ming asked in confusion.
"It's not cooperation but dealing, to protect the interests of the Chinese people. Even under the enemy's bayonet, some things can be done, even if it's some exchange, do you understand what I mean?" Sheng Youde said in a deep tone.
said.
"I know that at critical moments, we need to use money to get back the people we need and protect our vitality."
After Lu Ming discussed with Mr. Li for an afternoon, he seemed to have enlightened himself. He was clarified by Sheng Youde's few words.
"It's really amazing. Listening to you in one afternoon is really better than reading ten years of books. Communists are so awesome." Sheng Youde couldn't help but sigh.
Lu Ming smiled, and then went through the details of the discussion with Mr. Li, except that he wanted to join the Chinese Communist Party.
"It seems that the CCP has really read Chinese history thoroughly. This approach is imitating King Li Chuang." Sheng Youde said with a smile.
"Old man, the CCP is sincerely fighting against Japan, how can you say that?" Lu Ming said with some dissatisfaction.
"You have forgotten that when Emperor Chongzhen defeated him and had no foothold, King Li Chuang also wrote to the court asking him to lead his army to Manchuria to help the court fight Huang Taiji. Now the Red Army wants to cross the Yellow River to fight in the Northeast. Isn't this similar?
A scene?" Sheng Youde said.
"The situations were similar but essentially different. King Li Chuang represented the working people at the bottom of the time, and Chongzhen represented the interests of the nobility and civil servants. As a result, the nobility and civil servants collectively betrayed him, and he became a single man, and finally had to live in Meishan
Xuan Liang committed suicide. Unfortunately, when King Li Chuang entered Beijing, he also forgot about the people at the bottom, became the ruler himself, and finally embarked on the road of destruction." Lu Ming said.
"History often has surprising similarities. If the imperial court had not been eager to resist the invasion of the Manchu cavalry, it would not have been conquered by King Chuang. Now it is the Japanese who occupy Manchuria." Sheng Youde couldn't help but sigh.
"Then you mean that if the government resists the Japanese invaders with all its strength, the Communist Party will take over the world? It can't be compared like this, right? Besides, the Chongzhen Dynasty perished due to the corruption of the structural system. Even if there was no King Li Chuang, it would still be
The country will be destroyed." Lu Ming became even more dissatisfied.
"Yes, although the current government is not as corrupt as the Chongzhen Dynasty, the Communist Party is more popular than King Li Chuang. This is obvious. I think Chiang Kai-shek probably understands this, so he always
I am very worried and regard the CCP as a serious problem." Sheng Youde said with a free and easy smile.
As he spoke, Sheng Youde took out a bottle of wine from the wine cabinet behind him and poured a glass for himself and Lu Ming.
"You've been lobbying everywhere for a while. What's the effect?" Lu Ming changed the topic.
"The effect is not bad. The Japanese's coercion and inducement have sounded the alarm to the local authorities in North China. They also understand that the Japanese are implementing a strategy of disintegration and defeat. The inventors of this strategy are Chinese and Japanese.
He learned the strategy of our ancients to use foreigners to rule foreigners, and wanted to use China to rule China, and supported a large number of traitor regimes to subdue the Chinese people." Sheng Youde said calmly.
"Old man, you should talk to them clearly and let them stop having any illusions about the Japanese. It is not pleasant to be a subjugated slave. The puppet Emperor Kant in the Northeast is their best example."
Lu Ming's mind has been completely relaxed. Of course, he can speak without any scruples in front of Sheng Youde, especially on the major issues of the fate of the country.
“These days I have met with many high-level people in the party, and also communicated with those in power in local areas. They all agree that local governments should submit to the central government when necessary, but the central government must ensure that it will not take the opportunity to eat them up. The central government and
Conflicts between localities can be settled through a sit-down after the Japanese are driven out of China."
This is also Sheng Youde's basic point of view. If the central and local governments can find the basic points of their respective interests and not get entangled in minutiae, it is entirely possible to work together and establish an anti-Japanese united front.
"It would be great if this could happen." Lu Ming said with relief.
"The biggest obstacle now is still Chiang Kai-shek. I made a special trip to Nanjing to meet with him and had a long talk. He still held on to the idea that 'to fight against foreign aggression, we must first pacify domestic affairs' and insisted on solving the CCP's armed forces first.
, and then resist the Japanese." When Sheng Youde said this, he couldn't help but raise his head and sigh.
"I think Mr. Chiang's insistence on 'reconciling foreign affairs must first pacify the domestic situation' is ignorant of current affairs and has lost the support of the people. This will lay the seeds of trouble for the Kuomintang and bring disaster." Lu Ming said unceremoniously.
"Of course there are still some die-hard elements in the party, and the pro-Japanese elements are not willing to put aside their past grudges with the Communist Party. Instead, they are willing to work with the Japanese to establish a united front against communism."
When Sheng Youde said this, he couldn't help but slap the table, his anger was beyond words.
"Are these people old and confused, or are they out to betray the country?" Lu Ming stood up angrily and said.
"They are neither old nor stupid, they are just scared out of their wits by the Communist Party. You also know that the Communist International held a conference to establish a world anti-fascist united front. In turn, countries such as Germany, Italy and Japan
We want to build an international anti-communist alliance, and now some diehards and pro-Japanese factions within the party also want to join this alliance," Sheng Youde said.
"Whether it is anti-fascism or anti-communism, these are matters at the international level. Now for China and the Chinese nation, the most important thing and the only important thing is to resist the Japanese invaders. It has reached a life-or-death moment. Which is more important?
Can't they still see it?" Lu Ming asked loudly in confusion.