1928: The Rise of Giants

1 month 21 day.

In order to escalate the incident, the Japanese Army Headquarters sent Murai Kuramatsu, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Army Command in China, to Shanghai to urge Shichitaro Yada to continue to put pressure on the city hall.

At 9 o'clock in the morning of that day, Shichitaro Yada came to the city hall with a group of people and broke into Wu Tiecheng's office. He asked him to promise to arrest the murderer who burned Sanyou Industrial Society and put forward four unreasonable and tough demands:
1. Senior city hall officials, represented by Wu Tiecheng, publicly apologized for the Japanese monk incident.

2. Arrest and punish the Chinese workers who committed the crime.

3. Make financial compensation to the victim.

4. Abolish and disband all anti-Japanese organizations and groups in Shanghai, led by the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Association.

That afternoon, Commander of the 1st Japanese Overseas Fleet in Shanghai, Yukichi Shiozawa, issued a threatening statement, claiming that if Wu Tiecheng did not give a satisfactory response to the four demands raised by the Consulate General, the Japanese Navy would take "appropriate action."

After issuing a threatening statement, the Japanese Navy deployed troops and sent additional warships to the waters off Shanghai Beach on the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the cruiser "Oi" and the 15th Destroyer Squadron, dispatched from Wu Port in mainland Japan, carrying more than 1 people from the 450st Special Marine Corps and a large amount of arms, arrived directly at the Shilipu Wharf.

At 5 pm, the "Notoro" special forces ship (aircraft carrier, 1.4 tons, carrying 6 aircraft) anchored at Port Arthur also arrived outside the Shilipu Wharf.

The Japanese military also held an internal meeting and unanimously agreed that "if the Chinese side does not show sincerity and does not implement Japan's demands, we will use force to ensure that the demands are implemented, and agree on specific measures in case of an emergency."

With the tacit approval of the Japanese Navy Minister, a large number of fleets and troops gradually moved towards Shanghai.

At this point, the Japanese army had assembled 24 warships, more than 40 aircraft, more than 1830 marines and three to four thousand armed Japanese in Shanghai, distributed in the Japanese Concession and the Huangpu River.

If it had been 49 years later, if the Japanese invaders had dared to send troops to invade our territory so blatantly, our army would have beaten them to a pulp long ago.

However, now, facing the aggressive Japanese military, Sun Ke, Wang and a group of other Kuomintang veterans of the Nanjing National Government are still fighting openly and secretly. They only ordered Wu Tiecheng to meet the Japanese demands as much as possible and not to escalate the incident and trigger a war!
Mr. Wang’s own army will be used to fight against the principal and Zhang Hanqing. How could he be willing to resist the Japanese attack?

All kinds of bad news reached Ye Mansion via telegrams and telephone calls.

The principal's wife, who was still on a leisurely vacation in her hometown of Xikou, even secretly called her sworn brother Ye Luo, advising him to move his entire family to Jinling City for refuge.

Shanghai is now controlled by Wu Tiecheng, who has no ability or say.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see through what Wang and his friends are thinking.

The principal's wife felt sorry for her adopted brother and didn't want anything to happen to him in the war.

At this moment, instead of taking the whole family to Jinling, it would be better to take a boat directly to the United States!
Ye Luo thanked her for her kindness and asked for the contact information of three generals of the 19th Route Army of the Guangdong Army, Chen Mingshu, Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai, preparing to take the initiative to find them.

April 1st morning.

Ye Luo finished the breakfast prepared by his stepmother early in the morning. Without waking up Bai Xiuzhu and Xiao Aqiao who were still asleep, he went out in the morning light.

In recent days, the Japanese invaders have become more and more arrogant in Shanghai. Even the foreigners in the International Settlement and the French Concession have smelled something wrong and have taken refuge in the Consulate General or the Municipal Council and the Municipal Council.

Rosemary from Sassoon & Co. has been running around in the suburbs and the concession these days, urging some companies of Sassoon & Co. outside the concession to move out. She also followed Ye Luo's example and no longer cared about the fluctuating currency exchange system on the black market.

Ye Luo understood this time. The newly confirmed heir of the Sassoon family held a simple and crude idea - if I can't beat you, I will join you.

Now, she would do whatever Ye Luo did, following his footsteps like a brainless fangirl.

In fact, in the early days, many people secretly did things with Ye Luo in this way, and some even became his allies for a period of time.

But most of what Ye Luo did was shocking, somewhat illogical and against the status quo. After those people got a few waves of money, they began to distrust his judgment and jumped out to run their own businesses.

The result is obvious. Those who stand against Ye Luo, if they are lucky, their families will be destroyed but they will save their lives. Those who are unlucky will be like Lu Yusheng.

The grass on the grave is probably several meters high.

Ignoring the matter of the foreign girl, Ye Luo asked Cao Fan to drive. This time he simply brought all his confidants and headed straight for the security headquarters adjacent to the county town and the concession.

After the Fengtian Incident, the president negotiated with the Guangdong side. During the Ning-Guangdong negotiations, the Guangdong faction proposed that Guangdong officer Chen Mingshu be appointed as the garrison commander of Beijing-Shanghai. The president, who was about to step down, had no choice but to send a telegram to agree. The 11th Route Army under Chen Mingshu was then transferred from Ganzhou to garrison the Beijing-Shanghai area, and all of them were deployed along the Beijing-Shanghai line in November.

Afterwards, Jiang Guangnai of the 19th Route Army served as the commander-in-chief, Cai Tingkai served as the army commander, and Dai Ji from the principal's faction continued to serve as the commander of the Songhu Garrison Command.

From then on, the defense line of Shanghai was defended by the 19th Route Army.

Chen Mingshu and others are the backbone of the Guangdong faction, so naturally they have average relations with the local faction on Ye Luo's side.

But these three people were staunch anti-Japanese fighters during the battle and were brave soldiers, unlike Wang and his gang who were only interested in profit.

Ye Luo rushed to the security headquarters. Because the call had been made in advance, Dai Ji was already waiting at the door.

"Second Young Master, long time no see, I hope you are well!" After Dai Ji was transferred to Shanghai, he did not like Ye Luo at first, but after a few years of socializing with him, he became more and more impressed with Ye Luo, a patriotic industrialist.

If Wen Yingxing hadn't gone to the Tax Police Corps first, he would also like to go over and help Ye Luo.

The situation was urgent and he couldn't persuade the three people from the Guangdong faction, so he had to ask Ye Luo for help.

"Commander Dai, long time no see. How are things going?" Ye Luo followed him inside. He could see rigorously trained soldiers everywhere, and he couldn't help but feel relieved.

"I can't persuade them!" Dai Ji sighed. "Chen Mingshu is fine, he is very determined, but the other two are not. Jinling sent a message this morning asking us to avoid the battle, and they dare not disobey the order."

"Avoiding war? If you continue to avoid war, will you be happy only if you make trouble like Fengtian? Stupid!"

Ye Luo was furious and followed him into the command center while cursing.

In the command center, Chen Mingshu and the other two were still arguing about whether or not to avoid the battle. When they heard the sound of the door being pushed open, they all looked over.

"Is this the famous Second Young Master?" Chen Mingshu's face lit up with joy.

Although the Guangdong faction and the Ning faction do not get along, no one will reject the God of Wealth.

"I don't deserve it." Ye Luo shook hands with him and said straight to the point, "Three of you, I came here this time to advise you not to avoid the war, and to fight the Japanese invaders to the end!" (End of this chapter)