Life in the world of film and television

Chapter 452 The So-called Consumables
On this day, Li Mu came to Singapore to discuss the matter of investing and building a factory in Australia.There is really a shortage of meat in the country. Many people don't even know the taste of meat for several months. It is very necessary to increase the domestic meat supply.

The animal husbandry industry in Australia is extremely developed. Not only does it have a large amount of beef and mutton, but even because the rabbits are flooding and destroying the pastures, local rabbits are often hunted in an organized way.The resulting large amount of rabbit meat has no place to dispose of it, and the local people don’t like to eat it, so they throw it away casually, which will pollute the environment and breed a large number of mosquitoes and flies.

Sometimes, the local area even pays companies to deal with the rabbits.

In view of this, Li Mu decided to invest in a batch of meat factories here to produce canned meat and cured bacon with a very long shelf life, and ship them back to China.

As for the 21st century, according to research, it is not good to eat too much bacon and bacon, and it is easy to cause cancer and obesity. How can we pay attention to this in this era.

get fat?Everyone is eager to eat something oily and watery, and the birds are fading out of their stomachs.

Even, not to mention the meat, in some places that are suffering from famine these years, even the bark of the tree is almost eaten away, who cares about this.In this troubled world, it is a kind of luck not to starve to death.

After experiencing this era personally, especially after witnessing some things with my own eyes, some filters about the Republic of China have long been completely shattered.The plight of the people at the bottom is so tragic that people in the 21st century cannot imagine.

Li Mu remembers that before he came to this world, he collected a lot of materials during the Anti-Japanese War, and there were many doubts that he couldn't solve?After coming to this era, some doubts gradually became clear.

For example, a very sensitive question, where did so many strong men recruited for the War of Resistance go?
Since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Guofu has collected 100 to 190 million every year. Even in the first nine months of 45 years, it has collected 9, and a total of 81 were mobilized in eight years.

It is unprecedented in history, and it can also rank among the top three among the main participating countries in World War II, along with the Soviet Union and the United States.

But what is strange is that when the Second World War was won, the number of Soviet and American troops expanded from hundreds of thousands to more than 100 million before the war to more than 1000 million.

At the time of the July 280th Incident, the total number of Guo troops was 150 million, with an average of more than 45 million recruits each year. By 500, the total force was only more than 1000 million. Where did the more than [-] million strong men go?
You might say sacrificed.It is widely circulated in later generations that Guofu sacrificed 320 million troops.

In fact, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Guofu sorted out the casualties of the army since the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War.

其中，175万9715阵亡，131万9358负伤，11万6593失踪，阵亡、失踪、负伤的总数为319万5666。

后来又加入了海、空军的伤亡后，果府把数字调整为阵亡177万6678，负伤130万1357，对因伤致残的7万7108进行了单列，失踪人数仍然是11万6593。

In 46, because the allies were planning to claim compensation against Japan, it was necessary to collect the figures of the pension expenditures of various countries. The Guofu further verified the losses of the War of Resistance, and finally determined the number of casualties of soldiers during the War of Resistance as 340. This figure was also determined by the Guofu The compiled "Anti-Japanese War Loss Summary Table" included, can be regarded as the official internal conclusion.

Then, there are a total of more than 600 million strong men, the strong men recruited by the front-line army, and the strong men who joined the army, the total number is less than 500 million.

Where are the remaining 100 million strong men?

It is also said that 500 million people have been served as traffic servants, so there are more than 600 million people!

Taking Sichuan as an example, it is said that 300 million strong men came out of Sichuan to fight the war. In fact, there are only hundreds of thousands of troops, and most of them are strong men.

Sichuan is also the place with the largest number of young men, with 257.8 million young men. Henan Province ranks second with 189 million young men, and Hunan is the third place with 157 million young men...

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, how many of these strong men can really come back alive?Is there half?

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, even He Yingqin of Guofu was very puzzled by this and sent someone to make statistics.According to He 46's final statistics, the "loss" of recruiting strong men was as high as 1405.Similarly, this number was also accepted by the "Academia Sinica-Social Research Department" in Guofu, and included as an official record in the "Casualty" subject of the "General Table of Anti-Japanese War Losses".

So, where did all these strong men go?
In 40 years, Professor He Jihong, a well-known legal expert, participated in the "Disciplinary Inspection Team" of Guofu, and conducted a survey of the counties of Henan Province that belonged to the first and fifth theaters, exposing the fact that geese passed by during the recruitment process. the truth.

According to the regulations of Guofu for 40 years, a strong man is recruited, and a collection fee of 2 yuan is allocated to provide food for the strong man along the road.Although it was pitifully small, according to the prices at that time, it was still possible to barely starve to death.

But it won't be that simple if it falls into the hands of the chiefs and the sages of the village.In division-managed districts and regiment-managed districts, 1 yuan and 4 cents are generally withheld first, and only 6 cents are given to the county magistrate; , The length of the insurance is generally deducted by 1 hair.

The boss eats meat and small shrimps also have to drink soup, and in the hands of Chief Jia, he has to deduct 5 cents, which is called "office fee". In this way, the food fee has changed from two yuan to three. hair.They have to buy staple food and fuel, so the strong men can only get two meals of sweet potato and millet porridge that is almost water-thin.

In addition, the production of cotton-padded clothes for strong men is also a good way to make a fortune. You buckle a few feet of cloth, and I pull a few catties of cotton. In the end, the cotton-padded clothes that are handed out are all short and thin.Escort officers also use these strong men to transport private goods.For example, the heads of the two supplementary regiments in the district of the Xulu Division took advantage of the opportunity of the war in Yunnan to smuggle [-] catties of Sichuan salt, all of which were carried by the strong men.

What's even more frightening is that there are still many officers who are very violent. In 41, Qiu Kaiji, the captain of the principal's guard, went to Sichuan to serve as the commander of the "Jianping division's administrative area".After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, in 46, the people of Jiange County collectively wrote a letter, suing him for killing as many as 4000 strong men during his tenure.

Another example is Gansu. From 37 to 41, a total of more than 20 strong men were recruited.Among them, those who served the battlefield were less than one in a hundred, and almost 30% died of cold and starvation, and about 10% escaped.

41年I0月，第8战区26补充处第4团自秦安、天水征得壮丁2000余人，开到200多公里外的定西后，冻饿病死的壮丁就达1300余人。

As for seeing a doctor for a strong man, it's a joke, it's just a consumable, I don't care if I starve to death, and I will see a doctor for you.Whoever gets sick will hold on, and if you die, you will just die in obscurity, and no one will remember you.

In this day and age, being a strong man is something that all young people turn pale.Running away from strong men and hiring strong men has become the norm.

As a result, another more cruel thing happened, the trading of strong men.

Guofu is ruthless in arresting strong men, especially in the directly ruled areas. As the territory is getting smaller and smaller, there are many places where two men are drawn for one, or even three men are drawn for two. That is, three adult men, two of them will be arrested Going to be a strong man, avoiding being a soldier in order to reduce the number of men, and there are even tragedies of brothers killing each other.

What about those families who have a little money, or middle class, who don't want to be a strong man?Just spend money to buy a strong man and go for yourself.For this reason, even the slightest bit of wealth would go bankrupt.

As a result, a huge trading market for strong men has also emerged.

Not to mention all of the Guofu's army back then, a large number were involved in the trade of young men.

Except for a few of the senior military officers who fled back then, why were most of them rich and even turned into successful businessmen?

Are they all talented in business, where does the capital come from?
Many people think that the Republic of China is romantic, and it is really coming here. It is good to say that you are rich and powerful, that is really romantic.

If you are a low-level person, no one will treat you as a human being. At most, you will be a life of consumables, and you will die of starvation, illness and death at some point.

(End of this chapter)