In the living room of the Liang family, almost everyone felt extremely unbelievable at Zhou Hexuan's words.
Ding Wenjiang frowned and said: "Mr. Zhou, do you know that if Japan fully invades China, China will be unable to resist it given its current situation."
Jiang Tingfu also said: "As long as the Japanese Kwantung Army comes, based on the Northeast Army's previous performance, I am afraid that North China will also fall soon."
Zhou Hexuan nodded helplessly and said: "I know that not only North China, but also Central China and South China will be lost. By then, the Chinese people will really wake up from their sleep. The central government and local warlords must unite to resist Japan. China has actually always been strong.
Yes, it has always had an advantage when facing Japan. Japan has a small territory and scarce resources, while China has a vast territory and a large population. As long as it persists in resistance, Japan will inevitably be dragged into the quagmire of war. During the Sino-Japanese War of 1898, Japan's economy was on the verge of collapse.
, as long as the Qing government can insist on not surrendering for a year and a half, countless people in Japan will starve to death. Similarly, if Japan now wants to swallow the entire China and conquer a country with a land area several times larger than it, then
It is difficult for Japan to support its military spending even if it sells iron and steel."
Jin Yuelin asked: "What about China?"
Zhou Hexuan smiled bitterly: "Many people will die in China, and the national economy will also collapse, but it will win the final victory and regain the territory of Northeast China and Taiwan."
Zhou Hexuan is not just making up nonsense. Fighting a national war is really expensive.
Japan began its full-scale invasion of China in 1937. In just half a year, military expenditures accounted for two-thirds of Japan's annual fiscal expenditures.
By 1938, Japan's finances began to fail, so they relied on the issuance of public bonds to mobilize people to invest money to support war consumption.
By 1939, Japan's economy began to decline across the board, and its skimming over China could not make up for its consumption. Military expenditures accounted for 28% of the gross national product.
By 1941, the Japanese government invested all its money in war-related activities (including military production and purchasing resources), and issued special mandatory requirements for its citizens: it was forbidden to give gifts to each other, to hold banquets, to prohibit extravagant clothing, to prohibit extravagance and waste, and to promote national
Deposit all the money in the bank. Ordinary people in Japan can only survive on potatoes and cereals, and malnutrition is common throughout the country.
By 1943, Japan's economy was facing collapse. In the name of saving fuel, the government did not allow Japanese citizens to bathe at home and had to go to bathhouses to soak in large pools. In order to collect metals to make weapons, iron street lamps on Japanese streets were removed and replaced with wooden poles.
Instead, the police went from house to house collecting iron items. Meijia was only allowed to leave a pot and an iron bucket, and even the iron door handles had to be removed to support the war effort.
By 1944, Japan's military expenditure accounted for 98.5% of its total national income, and almost all the citizens' money was spent on war.
By 1945 it was even more ruthless, with Japan's military expenditure exceeding 80 billion yen, more than double the gross national product.
On the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in China, the Japanese people could not even afford to eat cereals, and the so-called middle class were generally starving. The Japanese soldiers on the battlefield were also miserable. They used to wear leather boots, and their food included various meats.
Canned food, and later had to wear rubber boots, often fighting on an empty stomach.
This is a typical example of a snake swallowing an elephant, which strenghtens itself to death.
Even if the United States and the Soviet Union did not intervene in the Sino-Japanese War, even if the Chinese army was defeated again and again, as long as they persisted in not surrendering, the whole country of Japan would starve to death.
Sometimes Zhou Hexuan even feels that the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki actually saved Japan's life. If the war continues for another two or three years, at least one million people will starve to death every year in Japan, and there may even be a revolutionary uprising.
God, the Emperor of Japan will meet the tragic end of the Russian royal family.
Jiang Tingfu said: "Mingcheng's words make some sense, but I'm afraid if a national war breaks out, the Chinese people will not be able to hold it back in the first place."
Hu Shi also said: "Yes, since the late Qing Dynasty, China's foreign wars have been a disastrous defeat. I am afraid that when the Japanese attack, warlords from all over the country will surrender, and then they will be the fate of the subjugated slaves. So I think, can we not fight the last war?
If we prefer not to fight, we must rely on diplomatic means to resolve the issue."
There was sarcasm in Zhou Hexuan's tone: "It is appropriate to rely on diplomacy to solve the problem, but that is just lingering and waiting for slow death."
"Then what else can be done?" Hu Shi distrusted the government, warlords and Chinese soldiers very much.
"Fight, we must fight, in order to create the future of the Chinese nation!" Zhou Hexuan said firmly.
Zhang Xiruo also echoed: "This is well said, China just needs a national war!"
The two men were clamoring for war, but others expressed concerns and even feared that China would be occupied by Japan within a few months.
Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit dull, Lin Huiyin quickly intervened: "Let's talk about other topics. Does Zhimo have any new poems recently?"
"I've been very depressed these days and I'm no longer in the mood to write poetry." Xu Zhimo shook his head and smiled bitterly.
Speaking of poetry, Zhou Hexuan thought of Lin Huiyin's "September 18th Walk" ten years later: "But I don't believe that the blood is still boiling, and the thoughts are not still spread on the streets, and I am willing to be crushed by the cars and horses.
, wait for it to bloom from the ground, and another kind of completeness will appear.”
This poem was written by Lin Huiyin in pain and anger after her third brother died on the anti-Japanese battlefield. There is a kind of determination to rise from the ashes, break up and then stand up again, which is much deeper than her current romance.
There is also Lin Huiyin's "Looking at Flowers on New Year's Eve": "The moonlight has frozen, pointing to the mountains everywhere, and the river water is even more messy...it is shaking with the worries of millions of people, and every heart is worried."
Flower viewing is still flower viewing, but Lin Huiyin’s mood after viewing the flowers has nothing to do with the romance, but has become a feeling of the broken mountains and rivers, and sadness of the displacement of the people.
Lin Huiyin became worried about the world because of the Anti-Japanese War. Zhou Hexuan was very looking forward to what poems Xu Zhimo would write during the Anti-Japanese War.
The topic of the salon turned to literature. Zhou Hexuan was not very excited about the conversation and reluctantly echoed a few words. However, Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin were chatting enthusiastically.
In the evening, everyone dispersed, and a big news suddenly came the next day: the January 28th Incident broke out in Shanghai!
Now Chiang Kai-shek couldn't sit still. He thought that the Japanese army was really going to attack Shanghai, so he rushed back to Nanjing from his hometown to take up his post, and fully supported the 19th Route Army in the war of resistance in Shanghai. Shanghai was one of Chiang Kai-shek's base areas, and he couldn't afford to lose it!
Chang Kaishen has gone crazy, like a cat whose tail has been stepped on. He took office as Chairman of the Central Government Military Commission on January 29 (the origin of Chairman Chiang, formerly known as Chairman Chiang or Commander-in-Chief), and it was announced on January 30
The "Declaration on Moving the Capital to Luoyang" stated that they would rather move the capital than fight the Japanese to the end. On February 1, they ordered the air force to participate in the war, and on February 4, they divided the country into four defense zones. This was a long-term plan to deal with the Japanese.
Unfortunately, this posture did not last long. After discovering that the Japanese had no intention of occupying Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek quickly withered away and used this "anti-Japanese campaign" to gain more power.
However, after the January 28th Incident broke out, someone from Zhou Hexuan's family came to visit again, and he was a general of the Northwest Army, who came specifically to ask him for advice on strategies to deal with the Japanese.