1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

After hearing this, Yang Dengying was stunned for at least half a minute before revealing a mixture of astonishment and disappointment. He then slammed the table. This wealthy young man, who had always indulged in drinking, whoring, and gambling, also roared:

"Secretary Ye! This is your first reaction!? Don't you feel angry when you see these photos?! Don't you think they should be exposed?"

“Who knows if it’s true or not?”

Ye Chucang retorted:

"Besides, even if it's true, what good is there in exposing this kind of thing? Who knows what the CCP's purpose is in exposing this kind of thing? It can only undermine peace between China and the United States! It's not good for the country!"

"Benefit? For the sake of profit, can we disregard the most basic justice and morality?" "What justice and morality! They are just the offspring of the lower classes. They will die sooner or later anyway!"

(Don’t be surprised, many officials now view us in the same way)

After hearing this, Yang Dengying was completely disappointed. He was too lazy to talk to this useless person who had no sympathy or courage at all, and left immediately.

"Whether you want to report it or not, I still have to go to other places to deliver the photos. Ha, if you don't report it, there are plenty of people who are willing to report it!"

"Yang Dengying!"

Ye Chucang felt the other party's extremely contemptuous attitude and immediately became furious:

"Don't think that no one can take care of you! Director Xu is still here!"

What this meant was that if Yang Dengying did not apologize and stop his current behavior, he would go to the Central Bureau of Investigation to file a complaint and have Yang Dengying arrested.

In response to this, Yang Dengying grabbed the envelope, took out the photo, smashed it hard on Ye Chucang's face, and then walked away.

Sue me?

Go ahead and sue!

Let's see if Director Xu will punish me!

Didn't you know that I'm about to go to Manchuria in Northeast China to be a spy?

I heard the environment over there is treacherous and dangerous, and the leader, Fujiwara no Kanezane, is a man of great foresight. Maybe we won't be able to come back this time!

snort!

I'm already half buried in the ground, so who the hell is I afraid of? So, before I go, I'll do one last thing for the CCP!

After Yang Dengying left, Ye Chucan stood there for a long time, staring at the photos scattered all over the floor.

It wasn't until the newspaper staff, having heard the noise, rushed in, picked up the photo and questioned him that he threw it aside, roaring as if he had seen something dirty.

"Take it away! Take it away! Not in my office!"

"Then, President, should we report this?"

"Report, report! Report! Pass the order down, no one is allowed to mention this matter! !"

Most newspapers like the Min Bao, which served as the KMT's propaganda mouthpiece, did not dare to report on what happened in Nanchang, as they knew that if this were to become public, public opinion in China and around the world would explode.

Most importantly, the bigwigs in the government will explode;

Most importantly, the bigwigs could make those who reported this explode. Although Chairman Jiang had suffered a great loss and was still groaning in Wuhan, he was only dealing with the powerful local factions. He might be powerless to deal with them, but it would still be easy to deal with a few intellectuals who had no weapons but pens and guns.

Therefore, in order to keep their jobs, everyone collectively turned a blind eye. The most conscientious people would just secretly spread the photos and materials sent by the CCP or give them to other people.

Are the children miserable? Yes, they are.

But in this day and age, in this society and in this country, there are so many things that are even more tragic than this. It is really not worth risking your job, future, and life for such a small matter!

However, after some presidents, editors-in-chief, or editors sent the materials away or refused the CCP's request to publish them in the newspaper, they returned to their rooms and burst into tears, and no one knew why.

Fortunately, although the Kuomintang government has always adhered to the "kneeling tradition", there are still newspapers and writers who dare to publish reports, and there are still quite a few of them.

The headquarters of Ta Kung Pao newspaper in Tianjin.

Looking at the photos and content descriptions sent by the Communist Party of China, Zhang Jiluan, who once served as Sun Yat-sen's secretary and editor-in-chief of many newspapers including the "Zhonghua Xinbao", his hands shook constantly.

That was because I was angry.

There have always been rumors in the north that foreigners "gouged out the eyes and cut out the hearts of babies for medicinal purposes and even ate them to replenish their bodies." Zhang Jiluan never believed it and even wrote articles to mock and refute it. Now, he just felt like his face was slapped.

Americans are so cruel! This must be reported! It must be reported!

Zhang Jiluan agreed to the person in front of him without any hesitation:

"General Ji, please rest assured. We at Ta Kung Pao will take care of this matter!" "...Thank you, Mr. Chi Zhang, for your understanding..."

After receiving Li Desheng's order, Ji Hongchang, who had been running around and lost a lot of weight, breathed a sigh of relief, glad that he had not made a mistake in choosing the right person, and sighed:

"Then please ask Mr. Chi Zhang to write an article as soon as possible and publish it in the Ta Kung Pao, exposing the crimes of these missionaries. As for the writing fee and printing..."

"General Ji, what are you talking about?"

Zhang Jiluan stood up as if he had been insulted and said angrily:

"This is such a shameless act that we must make it known to the public, even if it costs us money! General Ji, please don't say any more!"

"Uh... General Ji, this Ta Kung Pao is not yours, I'm just worried..."

"Hahahaha... General Ji, don't worry! My old friend (Hu Zhengzhi, General Manager of Ta Kung Pao) is also a man of justice! If he knew about this, he would definitely do his best to help! Farewell!"

As if afraid that Ji Hongchang would insult him again, the forty-something Zhang Jiluan rushed out as if his butt was on fire. But after a while, he poked his head in again:

"General Ji..."

"Mr. Chi Zhang, what else do you want?"

"I heard that the CCP troops are about to reach Yulin?"

Ji Hongchang's face tightened.

The meaning of Zhang Jiluan's words was very clear - I know you are a Communist.

Otherwise, Chairman Li's affairs are known to the whole of China, so why would he insist on asking me?

what happened?

I just joined the party not long ago!

How did it get leaked?

"Don't worry, General Ji. No one told me this, I just guessed. Judging from the general's reaction, it should be correct."

Ji Hongchang realized that he had been tricked and could only smile bitterly without saying anything. However, Zhang Jiluan continued to talk to himself:

"I am a native of Yulin, and I would like to ask General Ji to help pass a message to Mr. Li Desheng when he is free."

"Um... please?"

"First, please ask Mr. Li Desheng to take care of my family back home in Yulin. Second, please ask the Red Army to be extremely careful of the Mongolian nobles. With Jing Yuexiu's support, they can be relatively quiet. Without Jing Yuexiu, they will definitely collude with the Japanese and rebel."

"...Haha, okay, I'll convey that."

"Thank you."

This time, Zhang Jiluan really went out. Ji Hongchang shook his head.

The Red Army's successive military victories made many people realize that the Kuomintang government was in trouble...

Speaking of which, I was arrested for coming to Tianjin to contact my old subordinates, and was even discovered to be abnormal and recognized. As a "spy", there is probably no one who has failed more than me, right?

Let's finish the Tianjin business quickly and go back to Nanyang right away! We still have tasks assigned to us by the organization that we haven't completed yet!

Similar things are happening all over the country.

Party organizations in cities closer to Nanchang basically all received photos, and those that were too far away were notified by telegram as much as possible.

Thanks to the "Wuhan Victory," the CCP's activities were already legal, so they could be made public. Even though they couldn't be completely public to prevent the KMT, they still saved a lot of time.

Thanks to American aid, such as radio stations, the CCP's control over local Party organizations was greatly strengthened. First-level Party organizations in almost all major cities were able to directly contact the Party Central Committee via telegram.

So, with one order, the CCP's propaganda forces were instantly mobilized, and newspapers and media across the country soon learned about what happened in Nanchang.

(Even after being suppressed for a long time, the CCP was still very powerful in the public opinion front, because there were countless "leftists" among the intellectuals. Now look at this bunch of useless people and traitors... Sigh...)

(As for the Judge Wang incident itself, I think we need to wait for the bullets to fly, but the publicity about her "love of flower arranging, outdoor activities, handicrafts, calligraphy, travel..." is so stupid and bad that it leaves me speechless.)

Then, just like in Nanchang, public opinion exploded!

At first, everyone was simply angry that such filthy (prostitution) and cruel (infant abuse and murder) things could happen in a monastery in Nanchang, and they criticized and condemned it.

But soon, without the CCP's deliberate guidance, public opinion naturally turned in another direction, or rather, it triggered deep thinking and constant association among the masses:

If the monasteries in Nanchang are like this, then... what are the foreign monasteries in places like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Wuhan like?

Is it also...

Not only the newspapers and media in these cities, but also writers and critics from all over China have directly or indirectly, explicitly or implicitly joined the battle of skepticism.

As a result, something happened that made the big germs panic and the foreigners feel insecure.

The Chinese began to wonder if all Christian monasteries in China were practicing infanticide, abuse, and even cannibalism, just like in Nanchang.

When Christianity came to China, was its purpose to "spread the gospel of God" or to implement a genocide plan against the Chinese people?

The Chinese people who have suffered so much humiliation, at least those who have read books and know a little bit of sense, are extremely sensitive to the words "national destruction and genocide";

If a mere monastery in Nanchang could kill thousands of babies, what about monasteries in Guangzhou, Hankou, and Shanghai that were larger and had a longer history of adopting babies?

Once the flame of doubt in your heart is ignited, it is difficult to extinguish, not to mention that the doubt itself is reasonable and even true.

In just a few days, thousands of people across China voluntarily withdrew from Christianity, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and other religions.

Because even those Chinese who used to think that joining a religion was "fashionable" and whose knees had long been weak to the extreme could no longer bear the strange looks and hateful and suspicious gazes from the people around them:

What on earth do you want to do by joining such a cruel religion? Are you even Chinese? Do you even have ancestors? For the Chinese, especially the Han Chinese, from ancient times to the present, continuing the family line has always been their mission, and their children have always been their last weakness and support.

Now, someone has attacked a Chinese child, which has touched the bottom line of almost everyone. Even the bigwigs dare not act rashly.

This is not because these people have a little more shame and fear than their descendants, but because, in this day and age, "I'll hack you down along the Internet cable" is not a joke or angry words;

Wang Yaqiao, who was persecuted by the Kuomintang, has disappeared. Do you think no one will take up arms to do so?

Haven't you seen that those newspapers that whitewashed the foreigners with excuses like "the evidence is unclear," "the infant mortality rate is already high," and "if the church hadn't adopted them, they would have been in the baby tower long ago" had their headquarters burned down?

As for the editors and reporters who were beaten beyond recognition and even had their throats slit to death, they shocked all those who still tried to defend the foreigners.

(This kind of whitewashing is still common today, with arguments like "the infant survival rate was not high at the time," "the babies died when they were handed over to them," and "it's normal to have tens of thousands of bones.")

(There's nothing much to say about these bastards. The key is the idiots who believed them and didn't even think about it. Over 4 babies, only 197 survived. That's less than a 1% survival rate. How the hell do you call that "normal"?)

(Fuck, even in the shithole that is the Republic of China, if the infant survival rate in China was only this low, the Chinese people would have been extinct long ago)

The Kuomintang government initially wanted to ban those newspapers, but when they found that Chairman Chiang Kai-shek remained silent, newspapers across the country were reporting frantically, and the people were extremely angry, they backed down.

Foreign shit is precious, but life is more precious...

Masters, it’s not that we don’t want to charge in the front, it’s just too dangerous!! If we’re not careful, it will be another “Boxer Rebellion”.

But this time, there was no old lady Cixi.

After initially suppressing the public opinion front of the Kuomintang and various reactionaries, the CCP's second move came.

They produced the confession of Deng Wengyi, a Kuomintang spy.

The confessions revealed that the Nationalist government had been aware of problems at the Nanchang Monastery as early as 1929. They included not only prostitution but also issues of abnormal infant deaths. Rumors had also been circulating among the public, and some had even reported the incident.

Otherwise, would the mother who had sent the baby to the orphanage for adoption realize what had happened the moment she heard Sister Bernadetta's words and rush in crying?

However, the Kuomintang government turned a blind eye to this and even severely punished the whistleblower, sending him to prison on charges of "slandering foreign friends and intending to extort money."

This time, public opinion exploded even more.

From insulting monks and Christianity, he turned to insulting the government as well, and insulting the government even more harshly.

As the saying goes, be afraid of comparison in everything.

If the CCP hadn't exposed this, not many people would have cared about the KMT's actions, because this country has been doing this for decades or even centuries.

Anyway, I'm used to being bullied, so adding new ways of bullying will only add some insignificant topics of conversation in the teahouses.

The problem is, things are different now.

On one side, the CCP bravely stood up to expose the truth and uphold justice for the people, while on the other side, the government desperately tried to cover up the facts and crack down on whistleblowers. Who do you choose?

Even though many people regard the CCP as crazy, even though the CCP is likely to be retaliated by foreigners soon, the brave are still brave. In Chinese history, such brave people will not be eliminated by death.

This is also one of the important reasons why major non-government official media are willing to take the risk to report this matter.

The CCP is already at the forefront. We, the media who claim to be the "public conscience," can't just sit there and watch, right?

Then, the CCP came up with its third trick.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which had recently relocated to Nanchang, telegraphed to the entire country that they had arrested these monks and would hold a public trial near Huiminmen Square in Nanchang on September 10th. The masses would decide how to execute these demons!!!