The improvement of Tianjin was not achieved in a day. In the Eight-Nation Concession, there were many opium houses, casinos and brothels, as well as banks specializing in loan sharking. Businesses designed to harm the Chinese were everywhere.
Fortunately, Xie Tian cut the mess quickly and took back the jurisdiction over the concessions of various countries while the People's Liberation Army entered the city. It will be much easier for Chen Xiang to clean up these messy businesses in the future.
The opium den is the first target that Chen Xiang wants to destroy. If he wants to eradicate the opium den, he must start from the source.
After the Japanese occupied Tianjin, they controlled the sales channels of opium. Among them, the three Japanese trading companies in the name of pharmacies were the Nakamaru Brothers Pharmacy, Matsumoto Pharmacy, and Nandeyi Pharmacy in the Japanese Concession.
Chen Xiang was not polite to them at all, and directly sent troops to seal down these three opium shops, destroying hundreds of opium dens overnight, and ordered all opium dens, casinos, flower clubs, and poetry fans' clubs across the country to cease operations.
The Huahui is similar to the Mark Six Lottery, while the Poetry Club is a more hidden form of gambling. On the surface, it is about guessing poetry, but in fact the jackpot is huge.
As a Hong Mentong generation boss, Chen Xiang knew all about the world and was very precise in his actions.
Tianjin needs to pull out these cancers from the root. Chen Xiang used some abnormal methods, but it cannot be a simple one-size-fits-all approach. For this reason, Chen Xiang established a special withdrawal camp to focus on these smokers and gamblers for withdrawal.
The location of the withdrawal camp was the garrison headquarters and barracks built by the Japanese army at Haiguang Temple. The first job of the smokers and gamblers who were forced to participate in withdrawal was to sort out the ruins and rebuild the barracks for their own residence.
Regarding the establishment of the abstinence camp, some people applauded and others scolded them, but Chen Xiang ignored them.
Serious illnesses require intensive medical treatment. The Japanese regard Tianjin as their base camp in North China. In addition, the concessions of various countries also adopted barbaric plunder methods in Tianjin. Tianjin has been riddled with holes over the years.
However, in good conscience, these powers have also laid a good foundation for Tianjin's economic construction. Of course, their main purpose is to plunder China more and faster.
Tianjin's metallurgical, steel, shipbuilding, machinery, and textile industries are all relatively developed. Now these industries have simply and crudely become public enterprises in the liberated areas. Those business owners have plundered the fruits of China for years or even decades overnight. All the time was returned to China.
The business owners are crying for their fathers and mothers. This is another big diplomatic turmoil. It is probably time for the old man in Chongqing to flip the table again.
You're a fucking bandit, and you've already started robbing openly.
The old man was really unjust in this matter. Thank God. Chen Xiang was the one responsible for this matter.
Well, Chen Xiang learned it from Xie Tian.
You have taken back all the concessions in this way, why should I show mercy to these foreign capitalists who are plundering?
Xie Tian's mind was not on these matters at all. Pang Yuan had already said that you don't need to worry about money matters, just fight your battle.
Xie Tian is worried about the war now.
With the liberation of Tianjin, the tank division and the First Air Force have been freed up to support Fu Zuoyi's battle. However, the base of the First Air Force is still set up in Tianjin, with divisions stationed at Dongjuzi Airport and Jinghai Airport respectively.
Langfang has been successfully recovered. The shameless tactics of the Japanese army caused a certain number of casualties. The long-term pain is not as good as the short-term pain. It should be regarded as the price.
Fu Zuoyi has already sent his troops to march north, advancing the front to the Summer Palace at Changping Marco Polo Bridge, and surrounded Peiping from three directions: east, west and south.
It seems to have returned to the situation 37 years ago, except this time it is the Chinese army that is stationed outside the Marco Polo Bridge, and the Japanese army that is besieged is the Sixth Division of the First North China Army.
At the same time, due to the liberation of Tianjin, the two divisions that came to support from the Japanese mainland and the Kwantung Army diverted and stayed in Shanhaiguan, stationed in place and awaiting the next order.
The transport formation escorted by the Japanese aircraft carrier Daya originally planned to go directly to Tanggu Port. After receiving the news of the "fall" of Tianjin, it was ordered to divert to Jinzhou Port to drop the army and then quickly returned to the Japanese mainland without daring to stay in the Bohai Sea.
Not long ago, the Japanese regarded the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea as their own inland sea, but now the situation is completely different.
The People's Liberation Army has occupied Tianjin and most of North China, and the Bohai Bay is no longer a safe haven for Japanese warships. With the combat capabilities of the Eagle aircraft carrier formation, it really does not dare to compete with the People's Liberation Army, which is fighting land-based operations.
The Taitaka aircraft carrier was simply rebuilt from the cruise ship Kasuga Maru. It does not even have an island. The upper level is only a 172-meter flight deck. The hangar can only carry 27 aircraft, and its displacement at full load is not much. It weighs more than 17,000 tons, and its maximum speed is only a pitiful 21 knots. It can only undertake some transportation and escort tasks, and has no ability to participate in large-scale operations.
If this aircraft carrier is blocked in the Bohai Bay by Xie Tian's one or two hundred aircraft, there seems to be no other choice but to be sunk.
In fact, after the liberation of Tianjin by the People's Liberation Army, the Air Force has strengthened its flight patrols over the Bohai Bay. Fortunately, the Daying was diverted to Jinzhou early and managed to escape the disaster.
After cleaning up the remaining Japanese enemies outside Tianjin, Xie Tian was already sharpening his sword in Peiping.
It has been less than a month since his appointment with General Stilwell at Chengtianmen. If everything goes well, within a month he will be able to invite Stilwell to sit on the Chengtianmen tower and eat eight dishes.
As a result, at this moment, the old man from Chongqing personally sent a telegram. In addition to praising Xie Tian's recent achievements, he also sincerely invited Pang Yuan and Xie Tian to go to Chongqing to discuss state affairs.
Xie Tian looked at Pang Yuan who had brought the telegram in person: "What does he mean?"
Pang Yuan looked at Xie Tian with a cold smile and said, "Can you guess?"
Xie Tianqi laughed and said: "I can't guess, but I only know one thing. It's definitely not good for him to ask us to go to Chongqing."
Pang Yuan smiled and said: "I know him as a person, he is very scheming. On the surface, it will definitely be a good thing for him to ask us to go to Chongqing. Your reputation now has surpassed him, and you are suspected of shocking the master with your high achievements, so he must have What he said is that you are certain to be promoted to a higher position, and maybe he will even give you the title of Vice President. But as long as you get to Chongqing, it will be even more difficult to come back. Zhang Xueliang is a lesson learned from the past."
Xie Tian chuckled: "I really don't like the chair he gave me. It's not reliable. It's better to sit on the chair I made myself and feel more at ease."
Pang Yuan smiled and said: "He should also know that you and I will not go. As for how to reply to him, you don't have to worry about how to reply to him. I will reply for you."
Pang Yuan rolled up the telegram into a paper ball and threw it directly into the wastebasket. He looked at Xie Tian and said, "According to the news from Chongqing, he has been in frequent contact with Sato from Japan recently and met alone three times in five days." , his son met Sato more often, seven times in five days."
Liberation Daily is not just a newspaper, it is also a huge intelligence network, directly led by Pang Yuan and Xie Tian, and chaired by Pang Yuan.
