In 1937, Chongqing's population was only 470,000. However, since the National Government moved the capital to Chongqing, the population has skyrocketed. By 1941, Chongqing's population had skyrocketed to nearly 700,000.
While the population explosion has brought prosperity, it has also brought about a series of problems, the most serious of which is inflation.
In another time and space, during the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, prices in Chongqing increased more than 1,560 times. Mr. Lao She, a famous writer who lived in Chongqing at that time, recalled that things in Sichuan were really cheap at first.
"You can buy a bunch of fresh longans for a copper plate", but it has been no longer cheap since 1940, and prices are almost doubling every day and rising every day.
Not only that, since becoming the capital, Chongqing has also become a thorn in the side of the Japanese army. Starting in 1938, the Japanese Army Air Force launched large-scale bombings of Chongqing. By 1941, nearly half of the city in Chongqing had been bombed by Japanese bombs.
Exploded into rubble.
Although the anti-Japanese situation was extremely severe, the Chinese people did not surrender. Countless people dug out the bodies of their loved ones from the ruins with tears in their eyes, buried them, and then continued to devote themselves to the cause of the Anti-Japanese War.
Today's Chongqing seems particularly lively. A famous newspaper boy keeps walking through the streets and alleys, with an excited smile on his little face that has turned green due to malnutrition.
"Excellent nickname... Great victory at Zhongtiao Mountain... The Third Army of the National Revolutionary Army, the Eighth Route Army and the Liantai Militia joined forces to annihilate the Japanese ninth brigade near Qiuyang County, and killed its brigade commander Suzuki Shigeyasu."
"Excuse me, the Japanese army suffered a brutal defeat at Zhongtiao Mountain, and the entire ninth brigade was wiped out."
"Excuse me. The commander of the Japanese 9th Brigade, Suzuki Shigeyasu, arrived in Chongqing. After testing, he was indeed Suzuki Shigeyasu himself, but his body was missing!"
Today, all the streets in Chongqing were bombarded by a shocking news. Everyone was discussing two issues. In addition to the annihilation of the Ninth Brigade, the other was that the government wanted to broadcast simultaneously in the four most prosperous streets in Chongqing.
Movie.
As of 1941, although movies had been introduced to China for more than ten years, most people had never seen a movie. Therefore, when they heard that there were free public movies to watch, many people became excited.
It was originally scheduled to be broadcast at 7:30 pm, but in fact, people started to reserve seats before 4 pm. By 6 o'clock, the four broadcast locations were already crowded, and countless people came from all over with their families.
Come.
As night fell, the four large screens lit up almost at the same time, followed by bursts of cheers, mixed with sharp whistles, and the noises came one after another.
But soon, as the four large speakers placed around them sounded, people began to quiet down.
As soon as the scene started, a group of airplanes appeared on the huge curtain, and then a rich baritone voice sounded.
"On July 7, 1937, the Japanese army launched a brazen attack on the Chinese garrison at Marco Polo Bridge in Peking. The 29th Army of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army rose up to resist. Thus, China began a comprehensive and arduous war against the invaders.
"
Along with the explanation of the voice, pictures began to appear in front of everyone's eyes. Planes with ointment flags appeared in the sky, the cabin doors slowly opened, and bombs fell from the cabin to the ground.
Thick black smoke shot straight into the sky. Houses collapsed one after another. People rushed to escape. Dead bodies were everywhere on the road. Many people were even disheveled when they died.
"With the fall of Nanjing, the Japanese invaders launched a brutal massacre in Nanjing. According to statistics, in this massacre that lasted for more than 40 days, a total of 340,000 soldiers and civilians in NJ City died at the hands of the Japanese invaders.
Down."
In the movie, a ragged child who cannot walk is sitting on a street full of ruins and crying. There are corpses everywhere around him.
Narrator: This is a boy who is less than one year old. His parents have been tragically killed by the Japanese invaders’ bayonets. Fortunately, the ferocious Japanese invaders did not notice him because they were busy chasing him, so they were saved by kind people.
came down, but other children were not so lucky.
Along with the voice, the movie screen began to appear heinous scenes. A boy sitting on the ground crying struggled to crawl towards a body that fell on the ground, but soon a Japanese soldier appeared, only to
I saw him stuffing a grenade into the boy's arms, pulling the fuse and running away quickly. With a loud noise, the boy disappeared.
Not only that, but a heinous scene also appeared on the screen. A group of Japanese soldiers stuffed a Chinese man into a sack, tied the mouth of the bag, poured gasoline on it and set it on fire. A group of soldiers looked at the struggling and squirming sack and let out ferocious sounds.
of laughter.
"brute……"
"These damn beasts!"
"How dare they do this?"
Simple and kind-hearted people have never seen such a cruel scene. Many children were so frightened that Taotao cried. The mother on the side quickly covered their eyes when they saw this, while the men were so angry that they opened their eyes and cursed.
The sound of curses even covered up the sound of the speakers.
In an unobtrusive place somewhere, a man wearing a long mandarin jacket and sunglasses looked at the movie screen with a pale face. He couldn't help but cursed: "Mother Xipi, this is simply unreasonable. The Japanese bully
People are too arrogant... They are simply too arrogant!"
A man in Mao suit next to him looked at the excited people around him and worriedly advised: "Principal, there are people from all walks of life here. It is really unsafe for you here. Why don't the Ministry of Education send you back?"
"I won't go, I'll stay here! No matter how bad it is here, it's safer than Nanjing, right? I want to watch the movie, but I want to see what else is in that Gao Hongming movie?"
Seeing that his boss was determined to stay, the man could only helplessly wink at the people around him wearing the same Chinese tunic suit, signaling them to be more vigilant.
In the movie, various scenes of massacres by Japanese invaders lasted for more than ten minutes. During this time, people's emotions were suppressed to the extreme. Looking at the men in Chinese tunic suits around them, they were frightened. You must know that there were not ten thousand but seven or eight thousand people around.
This place is like a pile of dry firewood. Once a spark falls, it will explode immediately, not to mention the man they want to protect. If anything goes wrong, it will be a big deal.
However, what the man in Chinese tunic suit was worried about did not happen, and the voice of the narrator on the screen sounded again.
"The cruel atrocities of the Japanese invaders did not scare the Chinese people, and countless people began to resist.
In May 1941, the Japanese invaders began to attack Zhongtiao Mountain. The Shanxi Liantai Militia, under the command of regiment leader Gao Hongming, was ordered to approach Zhongtiao Mountain and began to fight back against the invading Japanese invaders..."