Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 577 It's He Xinganyi
A day and a half later, Qian Xiaobao led more than 20 people from the intelligence department back to Harbin.

As soon as the group got off the train, they saw hundreds of women on the platform holding tea cups and hot water buckets, facing the train station solemnly.The leading few women are all in their 40s and [-]s, and they look like women from rich or noble families by looking at their clothes.These women pulled a slogan behind their backs - Harbin Branch of the Manchukuo National Defense Women's Association.

Seeing this, Qian Xiaobao understood that it must be a certain unit of the Eastern Army arriving or leaving Harbin, and the National Defense Women's Association organized people to welcome or see it off at the train station.

Although the women in front were dressed luxuriously, they were generally too old. Qian Xiaobao looked at the woman in the back, and he saw Xiao Linxun in the crowd.

Xiao Linxun should have come with the nurses from the Red Cross Hospital. These people were all wearing nurse uniforms and holding small cloth bags in their hands. Qian Xiaobao knew that these bags were condolence bags for soldiers of the Kwantung Army. Contain daily necessities such as towels and socks.

The Japanese have ruled the Northeast for ten years, and their control over the society is getting tighter and tighter. In addition to the government, the army, the Self-Defense Corps, and the Baojia System, there are also organizations such as the Concorde Association and the National Defense Women's Association to organize all people to think Indoctrination means brainwashing, participating in various so-called patriotic activities.

Invisible hands stretched out to every corner of the northeast, firmly controlling the entire Manchukuo.

The Manchukuo National Defense Women's Association has organizations throughout Manchukuo, organizing welcome and farewell ceremonies for the Kwantung Army entering and leaving Manchukuo, finding jobs for military families, and organizing fundraising activities to purchase condolences for the Kwantung Army and the Manchukuo Army.

Qian Xiaobao had never heard Xiao Linxun say that she was also a member of the National Defense Women's Association.

Seeing soldiers like Qian Xiaobao get off the train and a few women walking over with cups full of tea smiling, Qian Xiaobao, Second Lieutenant Komatsu and others said thank you and then took the teacups to drink.

Qian Xiaobao secretly glanced at Xiao Linxun again, and led more than 20 people out of the train station.

After reporting to the Intelligence Department of the Kwantung Army, Qian Xiaobao rushed home.

Kobayashi Xun did not return home until after dark.

"So you are also a member of the National Defense Women's Association, why haven't you heard of it before?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

"Nurses in the Red Cross Hospital must join, and full membership costs four yuan and eighty cents a year." Xiao Linxun said distressedly.

Prices have skyrocketed in recent years, but five yuan could buy a pig six or seven years ago.

Membership of the National Defense Women's Association is divided into four levels, ordinary members, regular members, special members and honorary members. The higher the level, the more money you pay each year.

Xiao Linxun took out a ticket from his pocket and handed it to Qian Xiaobao.

"What is this?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

"The Harbin branch of the National Defense Women's Association organized members to perform voluntary plays, and the money sold was used to buy condolences for the Kwantung Army. Each member was forced to send two theater tickets, each ticket cost [-] cents." Kobayashi replied.

"I won't go! Unless I sit with you." Qian Xiaobao said.

Kobayashi's face turned red all of a sudden.

"When? Where?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

"It's all printed on the back of the ticket." Kobayashi replied.

Qian Xiaobao flipped through the theater ticket and saw that it was printed on the back: Soldiers' condolences duty drama will start at 16:[-] p.m. on November [-].Venue: Daowai Chinese Music Ballroom.

Under the Harbin branch of the National Defense Women's Association, there are 8000 branches with a total of more than [-] members. At least tens of thousands of theater tickets have been sold, which is a lot of money for this alone.

As if seeing Qian Xiaobao's thoughts, Xiao Linxun said: "The money is nothing at all. Most of it is the money raised from merchants in Harbin. Every time we hold an event, we have to extort money from merchants in Harbin."

The top figures in the National Defense Women's Association, whether they are Manchurians or Japanese, are all official wives in the Manchukuo government. Who dare not give them to these women to blackmail?
If you don't take out the money obediently, you don't love the Japanese Empire or the Manchukuo. Isn't that courting death?

One night later, Qian Xiaobao and Xiao Linxun rushed to the Chinese Music Ballroom outside the road.

When Qian Xiaobao walked near the Huale Ballroom, he saw policemen standing guard along the road, as if an important person was visiting.

Qian Xiaobao entered the ballroom, which was also heavily guarded.His ticket was in a corner at the back, and the first few rows were filled with officials from the HEB city government and officers of the Kwantung Army with their wives.

When Qian Xiaobao found his seat, Xiao Linxun was already sitting next to him, and the two of them looked blank on the surface as if they didn't know each other.

Suddenly a group of people came in from the door at the back of the ballroom and walked to the front along the aisle in the middle of the ballroom.

Walking in the front were two Japanese women in kimonos, followed by a middle-aged man in a suit and a woman of the same age in a cheongsam.

Kobayashi looked at the two Japanese women walking in front and said to himself, "It turns out that Mrs. Tsurumi, the head of the branch, is also here."

In fact, what Xiao Linxun said was for Qian Xiaobao.

Qian Xiaobao, the middle-aged man walking behind, knew him. He was Yuan Qinglian, the mayor of HEB. It seemed that the woman walking beside him should be his wife.

A young woman dressed in heavy makeup walked up to the microphone in the middle of the stage and said in the tone of an announcer: "Let us warmly welcome the wife of Hoshino Naoki, the vice president of the Manchuria National Defense Women's Association. Miss!"

Those dignitaries sitting in the front row of the ballroom all stood up and applauded enthusiastically.

The Japanese woman in her 40s who walked in the front turned around and bowed slightly to thank everyone.

The most important people arrive last, and now that these people have arrived, the fundraising performance in the name of the soldier condolences play is about to begin.

The young hostess went to the microphone again and said: "Today, in addition to Mrs. Fu, Mrs. Hoshino Cao, Mrs. Tsurumi, the head of the Harbin branch, Mr. Yuan Qinglian, the mayor of HEB, and all the officials of the provincial and municipal offices attended the fundraising performance. , the officers of the Fourth Military Officer District, and the officers of the Concord Association of the Aviation Federation Bureau of the Police Department! Let us extend a warm welcome to their arrival in their busy schedules!"

There was another prolonged applause in the ballroom.

"Next, Ms. Zhao Li Libo, executive director of the Harbin branch, will give a speech!"

A woman wearing a brocade cotton cheongsam, with glittering jewelry on her neck, earrings and hands under the light, walked to the microphone with a smile on her face.

"I now announce that after a few days of fundraising, so far more than 1 yuan has been raised! Now Manchukuo is full of one heart and one mind, and the nation is in harmony. The men are working hard for the country in the front, and the women are working hard in the back. You have made a huge contribution! All the people below stand up! Everyone read the oath of the Manchuria National Defense Women's Association!"

"I, the Empire of Manchuria, and my ally, the Empire of Japan, are united in one heart and one mind, and will sacrifice their lives to protect the rock-like frontline Japanese soldiers in Manchuria on the bitterly cold border..."

(End of this chapter)