The Fourth Disaster, Starting from the Movie Eight Hundred

I won’t talk about the Shixiu Surrender, as everyone understands it. But there are still people who shamelessly explain that this is “for the preservation of the orthodoxy of Chinese Confucianism” and that it is a “protective surrender”. It’s really hard for them to create such a new term.

If the descendants of the Kong family really want to protect the "orthodoxy of Chinese Confucianism", then when foreign enemies invade, they should draw their bows and arrows, mount their horses and go to war, fighting on the battlefield in the name of Confucius. Offense is the best defense. Nothing can prove the orthodoxy of Confucianism better than the blood of the enemy. Even if they cannot win, they can always run away with the books at home. But did the Kong family run away?

If you are reluctant to give up the fields and wealth of Qufu, just say it directly. You are shameless. Everyone, spit on me before you leave. I will be the first to spit.

Sixty percent of the arable land is now controlled by the Confucius Mansion, and farmers need to pay fifty percent of their harvest as rent. Fifty percent! Many families are forced to "pay off debts with their own people." Selling children is the least of their crimes, and selling wives is not uncommon.

Remember the story of crossing the Great Wall to the Northeast? When disaster struck Shandong, locals were forced to beg for food and survive in the Northeast. Do you really think the Great Northern Wilderness was the Northeast of today? It was reclaimed piece by piece by those forced to flee. Beneath the fertile black soil lie the remains of countless pioneers who laid the foundations for the Great Northern Wilderness.

What was the Kong family doing at that time? Given their social prestige and wealth, if they really had the Confucian responsibility, they should have opened the granaries and released grain, reduced rent and interest, but did they do it?

No!

You should know that at that time, the Confucius Mansion had a private granary that could store more than 100,000 dan of grain, but they closed the granary, hoarded the grain, and sold the grain to foreign missionaries at a high price, using the profit to purchase guns and strengthen their own private army.

During the "Dingwu Great Famine" in 1860, the Confucius Mansion still collected rent of up to 50% of the harvest from tenants, forcing a large number of farmers to sell their land to survive and become the main force of migrant workers to cross the Guandong Pass.

In 1877, Shandong suffered a severe drought. The Confucius family lent money to the victims at high interest rates in the name of "borrowing grain", with an annual interest rate of 300%, causing many families to go bankrupt.

During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, the Confucius Mansion assisted the Qing army in suppressing peasants who were rioting due to famine. Duke Yansheng of Kong Lingyi reported to the court that "the refugees are gathering together to cause trouble and should be eliminated as soon as possible", resulting in the suppression of thousands of refugees who attempted to flee the famine.

During the Jiaodong flood in 1911, the Confucius Mansion applied for a loan from the German colonial authorities in the name of "disaster relief", but actually used the funds to repair the Confucius Temple and took the opportunity to annex 2.3 acres of land mortgaged by the victims.

On the surface, the Confucius Mansion advocated "benevolence and love for others", but during the Jinan plague in 1907, it prohibited victims from entering Qufu, intercepted them with private soldiers, and sent servants to mark the "epidemic area" with lime powder, resulting in more than a thousand people being trapped in the "epidemic area" and starving to death.

The Kong Family Shop did not treat the victims as human beings, but they did not treat themselves badly. During the famine, Duke Yansheng still held the Spring and Autumn Confucius Ceremony as usual, and only symbolically donated food to the porridge stalls. In fact, the average daily supply of porridge was less than 100 bowls. They did not even put their heart into the performance, but spent 3,000 taels of silver to purchase sacrificial utensils. The "Shen Bao" directly scolded them, saying that, no, it was they who "killed people with rituals."

It is still a legal and proper killing.

After the opening of the Jinpu Railway in 1912, the Confucian family, fearing the resulting population influx would impact their rule, bribed officials to locate the Qufu Station in Yaocun, far from the city, increasing the cost of relocating disaster victims. The Confucian private school textbooks then described those who crossed the Guandong Pass as "rebellious people who betrayed their ancestral teachings," while tacitly allowing their stewards to open pawnshops and opium dens in the Northeast to profit from the immigrants.

Translated it means: You guys are not willing to be my dogs obediently, why don’t you just starve to death?

Damn, your dog eats better than the ordinary people out there!

The crimes committed by the Kong family store are too numerous to list, one after another. These are just what can be found in the open. There are even more filth behind the scenes. After all, when you find cockroaches crawling all over the floor, you will definitely find rats and maggots.

Because the news that the Volunteer Army had bombarded the Forbidden City was already known to everyone, everyone in the Confucius Mansion was almost suffocated by fear.

In their view, the volunteer army was "unkind, unjust, impolite, unwise and untrustworthy" and had no respect for Confucius at all. It was truly a case of Heaven being blind and ancestors not blessing them (Confucius: I really will not bless you bunch of rubbish) that such guys could actually conquer the world.

Therefore, everyone in Kongjia Store started thinking about running away a long time ago, but the problem is that their greatest interests are in Qufu and their connections are all in Shandong. If they leave Kongjia Store here, no one in the world will recognize them. The Japanese might recognize them, but that also means they have to give up all their interests in China and start over overseas.

People are despised when they leave their hometown. When that happens, they will be like meat in the mouths of the Japanese, and they can eat them however they want.

Some people in the Kong family store think that the volunteer army will definitely show leniency to the descendants of Confucius. After all, we have experienced so many dynasties before, and the Japanese devils, who are so cruel, did not kill all of us. Why do the volunteers have the courage to cut off the "roots of Chinese Confucianism"? Others are other people, and with the connections our Kong family has in China, the volunteer army dare not touch us.

Amidst the arguments over whether to leave or not, the volunteers fought their way into Shandong. The Japanese army collapsed at the first blow, and the puppet army's combat effectiveness could be ignored. Their performance was no better than the ants that were trampled to death by the volunteers during their march.

There were even cases where puppet troops fought back and killed the retreating Japanese troops, and then surrendered to the volunteer army with the heads of the Japanese soldiers.

For those puppet soldiers who dared to fight back, the Volunteer Army also offered a price to redeem their sins.

One Japanese soldier's head can be exchanged for the acquittal of an ordinary puppet army soldier. A squad leader needs two heads, a platoon leader needs five heads, a company commander needs ten heads, and all puppet army generals above the rank of company commander will be shot. However, if the puppet army can purify itself of these scum, one puppet army officer's head above the rank of company commander can be exchanged for the pardon of a puppet army company commander, and those on the red warrant can be exchanged for the acquittal of a company of puppet army soldiers and officers.

Under the overwhelmingly powerful military deterrence of the Volunteer Army, the Japanese and puppet troops throughout Shandong entered a battle royale mode.

The Japanese thought that the puppet army was going to attack them, and the puppet army thought that the Japanese wanted to get rid of them in order to avoid being attacked by them. The two sides had conflicts on a daily basis, and the Japanese did not treat the puppet army as human beings. Now that the wall has fallen, everyone is pushing it down. The puppet army does not want to die for the Japanese. They are also looking forward to the volunteer army coming to divide the land.

There are also conflicts between senior officers and grassroots officers of the puppet army. Now they live in nightmares every day. When they wake up, they touch their necks first. In their dreams, they see grassroots soldiers chopping them off and taking them to the volunteer army in exchange for military merits.

Under such high pressure, it is impossible not to have problems.

Soon a conflict broke out between the Japanese army and the puppet army. The Japanese army thought that the puppet army was going to rebel, and the puppet army thought that the Japanese army was going to massacre them, so both sides immediately entered a bloody PK mode. When the gunshots rang out, both sides realized that they had no way to retreat. The puppet army, forced into a desperate situation, fought a bloody battle with the Japanese army until the volunteers were at the gates of the city. Then the Japanese army collapsed, and no matter whether they were alive or dead, they were all beheaded by the puppet army. Then the volunteers gave them immunity as promised before.

But there is a small problem here, that is, the right to interpret the exemption quota lies in the hands of the Volunteer Army. Those younger and relatively clean people in the puppet army directly received the exemption quota and left, and the number of Japanese devils was definitely not enough to exempt all the puppet soldiers. In the end, those old soldiers and troublemakers would be left behind to undergo five years of labor reform.

At least they don't need to be shot after a public trial, but they still have to suffer the punishment of being alive. If these people are not reformed and then assigned to other areas, the players will be worried. What if something like the Law Rogue appears?

So it is better to reform yourself well. At least after five years of reform in the labor camp, you can be released early based on your outstanding performance.

These are the results of the internal handling of the Volunteer Army after the puppet troops surrendered. Outsiders certainly don’t know. They only see that the Volunteer Army did fulfill its promise, and those puppet soldiers who surrendered with the heads of the Japanese devils in their hands all survived.

As a result, the Japanese and puppet troops began to kill each other on a large scale in Shandong. It was common for puppet soldiers to launch sneak attacks in the middle of the night, stab the heads of the Japanese soldiers and run away. The Japanese army was frightened three times a day and had to drive the puppet troops far away and confiscate their weapons and ammunition.

The result of this was that those puppet soldiers who were still hoping for a lucky break became completely disappointed with the devils and turned into devil exterminators.

By September 7, there was not a single Japanese soldier left in the entire Shandong province. Those who could evacuate by sea had fled, and the remaining puppet troops surrendered to the Volunteer Army, and Shandong was liberated.

But the matter was only resolved at this point. At this time, the old forces throughout China held their breath, waiting to see how the Volunteer Army would treat Kongjiadian. Then the Volunteer Army responded to their expectations in their own way.

On September 9, 1939, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army surrounded Qufu with heavy troops, and tanks directly knocked down the wall of the Confucius Mansion. Facing the murderous Chinese People's Volunteer Army, the usually arrogant and domineering Kong family suddenly learned to be gentle, honest, respectful, frugal and modest. The whole family, young and old, obediently rolled into the temporary prison prepared for them by the Chinese People's Volunteer Army.

This time, the entire Chinese literary world was in an uproar.

Will continue to update tomorrow!

I originally wanted to take a break tomorrow, but readers impressed me with 100 promotion tickets. -p

I will continue to update tomorrow! I won’t let you down!

Chapter 125: Blood and Tears

(The first update is here! There will be more to come)

Not surprisingly, all members of the Kong family were publicly tried.

A protest by the old intellectuals? A protest by the government? A protest on behalf of the “people”?

Bah, are you representing the people or the "people"? The "people" mentioned by the old intellectuals are the ones with more than one hectare of arable land per capita. Those who are below this standard can only be called hooligans.

Even so, the Confucian power represented by the old literati still aroused massive opposition, and various newspapers began to report relevant information. However, the media censorship system in the liberated areas directly cut off the old literati's channels for speaking. It was not impossible for them to express their opinions. They could go to the streets to give speeches and see if what they said would be thrown away by the people. If anything happened, they would be responsible for it themselves.

It is also possible that most people simply don’t understand it and are just watching a monkey show.

There are too few entertainment activities these days, so letting these grandchildren entertain people is a good way. Even if they don’t understand what they are saying, they can still learn a few idioms.

The result was that the storm stirred up by the old intellectuals was indeed terrifying, but it was limited to the Kuomintang-controlled areas and the warlord-controlled areas. The liberated areas, which had already brought two-thirds of the north and one-half of the south into their sphere of influence, were calm and had no feelings towards these old intellectuals who took to the streets to give speeches. Those progressive people who could understand what they were saying, the older ones watched with a sneer, the young people directly threw stones and rotten eggs, and there was even a guy named Hu who was beaten by a group of students on the street.

It is said that the man's face was directly broken. In order to clear the crowd at the scene, the police took four hours to successfully rescue him. After a rigorous assessment of the injuries at the scene, it was determined that he had fallen himself.

He must have fallen down by himself. Those students respected Mr. Hu very much. When they saw him fall, they stepped forward to help him up. It's just that there were too many people and everyone was too enthusiastic. They tried to help him up at the same time. As a result, there were too many people and too many hands to help. They failed to help him up in time, which led to this tragedy. But everyone's original intention was good, it was just that the execution process deviated slightly. I believe that considering Mr. Hu's character, it is understandable. Isn't it, Mr. Hu, you are not such a petty person?

Under the absolute suppression of the Volunteer Army and the offensive of advanced social public opinion, the old intellectual forces were reduced to ashes. Even if those ashes were rekindled, they were just slightly hot ashes and would sooner or later be thrown into the dustbin of history.

To deal with those old intellectuals who are only good at talking, most problems can be solved by strangling their necks. However, for the local people who have been bound by the feudal system for a long time and most of them are illiterate, the way of education must be changed.

Grievance meetings were not only held by the military, but also by civilians. This was also recorded during the War of Liberation.

After several years of training, the players have become familiar with the process of the grievance meeting, but before the actual grievance meeting begins, they must first provide some spiritual civilization construction for the locals - watching a movie.

What to watch? Of course, The White-Haired Girl.

However, compared with the original "White Haired Girl", the player shot an absolutely real ultra-high-definition 40K version. Every detail in it was taken from real people. Except that the actors were not the real people, all other experiences were real. The parties involved came forward to tell their stories. It once set a brilliant record that one-third of the audience fainted in tears at the end of a movie.

Not to mention the people of this era, even the players themselves would want to rush out and destroy the world, kill the landlords, and slaughter the gentry to vent their anger after watching it.

Because of historical experience, when "White Haired Girl" was shown in the army, the officers and soldiers did not carry guns and used film equipment to play the film, to prevent the people and officers in the audience from getting angry and going on stage to beat up the actors.

Comrades, you hit the wrong person, the actor is one of us!

What is the effect?

"Doctor! Doctor! A fellow villager here has fainted from crying!"

"Don't get excited! Don't get excited! This is a movie, there are no landlords around!"

"Hurry, hurry, this fellow is so angry that he's vomiting blood!"

The effect was too stimulating. The howling of pain at the scene was deafening, and pairs of numb eyes were covered with tears and anger. The anger of the people was thus aroused.

The next day, the grievance meeting began, and everyone in the audience raised their hands.

"My name is Lao Gen'er. In the 16th year of the Republic of China, there was a severe drought. My father borrowed three dou of sorghum from Mr. Kong to buy medicine for my mother. Who knew that this was a debt from the God of Hell! Just one year later, the three dou of sorghum turned into fifteen dan of rice! On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Mr. Kong brought his servants to our house to collect the debt. He mortgaged our only two acres of thin land and two mud houses, but it was not enough. He insisted on taking my sister away. My father kowtowed in the snow and his head was bleeding. But that damn bastard said that my father was trying to gain sympathy and not repay the debt, so he had the servants beat my father to death with five ribs. My sister was also taken away. My father... my father... finally vomited blood and died! In order not to implicate me, my mother hanged herself that night!"

"My name is Tiezhu. I remember it was winter, and my mother took my sister and me to escape a disaster. At that time, there was no place to eat in the entire Jinan Prefecture, and there were starving people everywhere. My mother gave me her last piece of bran cake and swallowed Guanyin clay herself and died of bloating. On the way to beg, a man from the Kong family saw that my sister had beautiful eyebrows and eyes, and first threw two silver dollars to me, then had his servants grab them to pay some kind of "strong-man tax". Then he took my sister away, saying that he had bought her! When my sister was taken away, she screamed "Brother, brother". It has been fifteen years, and I still can't forget that heartbreaking sound!"

The people on the stage cried tears of blood, the people below gnashed their teeth, and the Kong family members who were tied up on the public trial stage trembled in fear.

Basically, everyone who comes to the stage to complain has a difficult time, and this is almost the norm in Qufu and even the entire Shandong region. Most people struggle to survive in an era where people are worse off than dogs in prosperous times. Their tolerance for suffering is unimaginably low. They will go hungry at the slightest sign of trouble, and their families will be broken up and their lives will be destroyed as long as there is man-made disaster after a natural disaster.

Almost all the people in Qufu have experienced the death of family members who starved to death. Some were parents, some were children, some were relatives or friends, and some were sold and never heard from again.

When you have begun to suffer from the hardships of life, don't be anxious. There are eighteen levels of hell below the eighteen levels. There are basements under the eighteen levels, and there are partitions under the basements, which can be further expanded.

Only physical limits can stop human beings, not ideological limits. Even if ordinary people try their best, they cannot imagine the sudden inspiration of a real bad guy, because for the exploiters, exploiting others is as normal as eating and drinking. Since it is a normal thing, then it is natural for me to do these things, and there is no need to pay too much attention to it.

Because the public trial was broadcast live nationwide, cartoons and newspapers were also airdropped to the Kuomintang-controlled areas and the warlord-controlled areas. Therefore, every incident that occurred in Qufu became a major historical case that even Mount Tai felt was too serious.

The Nationalist government was able to make a few noises at first, but then they completely played dead because the Volunteer Army started to curse directly.

"The government that provides support to this Kong family business must be executed! All nine clans must be exterminated!"

The volunteer army really dared and had the ability to exterminate an entire clan, and the Kuomintang government, which was in a precarious situation, was trembling in fear.

The trial of Kongjia Store in Qufu was promoted as "Down with Kongjia Store, rescue Confucius", and all propaganda had to be propaganda of the entire sentence. Anyone who dared to take it out of context would be physically cut off. In order to achieve the propaganda effect in the newspaper, the Volunteer Army specially painted the sentence "Down with Kongjia Store, rescue Confucius" in red. In the newspaper with an entire page in black and white, this sentence was very prominent, and all articles had to popularize the explanation of this sentence first. The official explanation could not be changed in any word, and the same applied to punctuation. In addition, those reprinted domestically had to add these contents first, otherwise it would be regarded as false propaganda.

If it is false advertising, the caracals will bring the police to your door to show your support.

Sir, you don't want to experience what it feels like to have the steel-plated SWAT boots come into close contact with your butt.

The greatest weapon of the old intellectuals, the pen and paper, was directly silenced. When they gave speeches on the streets, either the people didn't understand them, or those who did understand them would criticize them directly. The official venues were provided for public speeches, and there was freedom of speech, but the local people also had the freedom to criticize them. We were all adults and should know how to be responsible for our own words.

If the various major trials before the Volunteer Army consolidated its position in the hearts of the Chinese people, then the Qufu Trial was a direct death order to the feudal ruling order. The Volunteer Army did not want, and there was no need, to let China return to the old order system of the past, but to create a new era.

At the end of the public trial, the players chose to hand over the Kong family's death row prisoners directly to the local people for disposal.

Then the scene was almost like a biochemical crisis. The Kong family members were instantly overwhelmed by the angry crowd. The people of Qufu really drank their blood, ate their flesh, and broke their bones. In the end, there was nothing left on the ground except blood. The whole process was filmed by the volunteers with high-definition cameras, and then broadcast live in all the cinemas in the liberated areas. When the people knew how powerful they were, the so-called Yansheng Duke was nothing in front of the people's power. It also warned the literati that this was the end of offending the people, and they would die without a complete body!

Afterwards, the volunteer army cleared out the historically significant portraits and souvenirs of Confucius from the Confucius Mansion, then razed the entire mansion and built the People's Victory Monument on it to warmly celebrate the Chinese people's all-out war against feudal ethics.

Confucius is still the same Confucius, but history will give him a more objective and fair evaluation, rather than the false disguise imposed by feudal rulers.

The old era must eventually end, and the new era must be built on the ashes of the old era.

Just as the Volunteer Army was sweeping across the Central Plains, an urgent mission diverted the Volunteer Army's next offensive direction directly to Huayuankou, Zhengzhou, Henan.

A certain pseudo-human creature is trying to make a fuss here again.

Chapter 126: Zhengzhou People's Self-Rescue

(Second update! More to come in the afternoon)

What is the next sentence of “The water of the Yellow River comes from the sky”?

For the people of Henan, the next sentence is "flying into the homes of ordinary people."

A famous historical event, the Huayuankou Dam burst.

The man-made disaster directly caused the deaths of 89 people, affected 1200 million people, and triggered famine, plague, and long-term ecological disasters.

Because floods do not irrigate arable land, but only damage it and cause it to become salinized, the management of the Yellow River flood area began with the blocking of the dam in 1946, and the gradual restoration of management was not until 1980, a full thirty-four years. Ecological restoration work in some areas did not begin until the end of the 20th century.

Since such a terrible price has been paid, what impact will it have on the invaders?

The answer is sadly very little.

The direct impact was to delay the Japanese army for 3 to 5 months. Sounds great, doesn't it? Having a buffer period of 3 to 5 months was a great thing for the impoverished and weak China at that time.

But the problem is, given the Nationalist government's administrative efficiency and operational capabilities, even if they were given three to five years, let alone three to five months, what would have happened? After 9/18, the Nationalist government had plenty of time to expand its military and prepare for war. What did they do? What were their achievements? The historical data is there. The time buffer provided by the Huayuankou dam burst would only have made it more difficult for the Nationalist government to cope with the pressures on both the front and rear. The disastrous Battle of Wuhan is well documented in history books.

Of course, some experts and professors also said that after all, they had waited for three to five months. If they had just let the Japanese army rush in, the government would have been even more unable to stop them.

Oh, you also know that the Kuomintang is a century-old rotten party, right? You know they can't be stopped, but there were better ways at the time.

To talk about a more conscienceless method, the Nationalist government directly threatened to break the Huayuankou dike, threatening the Japanese army and the people of Henan at the same time. It told the Japanese that if you come over, we will flood the Seventh Army. It told the people of Henan that you don’t want your homes to be flooded by the Seventh Army, so go and fight the Japanese to the death.

Let the 89 people who drowned in the Huayuankou dike burst be exchanged for the Japanese invaders. The situation can be delayed for more than half a year. With their families behind them and no other choice, it is not impossible to use this method of risking their lives. This is the IQ that dark decision-makers should have.

Did the government do it?

They chose a surprisingly wise strategy from the three options of best, middle and worst, and exchanged the most unprofitable price for the smallest result.

Not only did they not gain any benefits, but the people of Henan completely lost confidence in the National Government. They served as puppet soldiers and beat the National Army on the Anti-Japanese War battlefield, surrendered to the People's Liberation Army and beat the National Army during the War of Liberation, and destroyed the Kuomintang. This was definitely their own fault.

As for those controversial experts and professors, I suggest sending their entire family to Henan after the Huayuankou Dam burst, so that they can feel the Chairman’s deep love and be grateful for the contributions of their predecessors from the perspective of future generations. The hostile propaganda agencies have given them a lot of money.

After the Huayuankou dike burst, the Japanese soldiers cursed the Kuomintang government. The beasts thought each other were worse than beasts, which was also a wonder in the world.

"Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Get on the plane, take off immediately! I'm going to catch that bald bastard and beat him to a pulp at the entrance of the garden!"

"I'll just fly over there at maximum speed. At worst, I'll fight those beasts!"