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Chapter 34 Refugees

After Zhou Wen happened in the temporary residence, Guan Shijie asked several other boy team leaders to organize two small patrol teams to patrol the girls' places every morning and evening, and also take care of the boy's temporary residence. Because there are many refugees in the city, rice, flour, grain and oil are often stolen.

Not only that, Guan Shijie also opened several porridge sheds in several places with relatively large refugees on behalf of the Luoyang Station of the Fuxing Society Secret Service to find some things for these young people. It is much better than being idle and shopping every day.

Given that there are too many refugees in Luoyang City, some illegal people took the opportunity to cause trouble, robbery, theft, and murder, and other vicious incidents occurred from time to time. Guan Shijie organized several security patrols to help local police maintain social security.

After the young people had something to do, they were effectively curbed of alcoholism and trouble, fighting and other bad habits. After Qiao Benyu reported these matters to the secret service office, Dai Li specially approved 10,000 yuan of funds to spend more than 600 students on the living expenses of more than 600 students. He also verbally praised Guan Shijie.

On December 13, Nanjing fell, shocking the world and the tragic Nanjing Massacre began on this day and lasted until mid-January 1938. According to the investigation report of the Far East Military Court, more than 190,000 Chinese military and civilians were massacred and buried alive; more than 150,000 corpses were buried in scattered residents.

One-third of the city's houses were burned down. Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, had corpses and rubbles, and they suddenly became hell on earth.

Although Guan Shijie had known this history for a long time, he was in the Republic of China and could not help but be angry when he heard this news. Among the recruited students, some passionate young people who were prone to emotional impulsiveness ran to the Luoyang City Conscription Office to join the army and go to the battle to kill the enemy with real swords and guns.

To this end, Guan Shijie held a meeting at his temporary residence. He did not force those who signed up to join the army to stay. He supported any choice based on the principle of freedom and autonomy.

In the following days, the number of students who signed up for the army reached more than 300.

"Team leader, are we doing the work? If this happens, will everyone be exposed?" Xia Pengfei said with concern.

"You are worried about eating salty radish, and the team leader knows it." Song Yuan said.

"The students are in a desperate mood to join the army to kill the enemy. It will be useless to keep us. Don't worry, we will recruit people one after another." Guan Shijie said.

At this time, Taiyuan, Datong, Yangquan, Yuci and other places in Shanxi were also lost in November, and more exiled students from Shanxi were also increasing, and the subsequent enrollment work was progressing extremely smoothly. By late January, more than 300 people were recruited one after another, filling the number of trainees to join the army.

At this moment, Luoyang City was already overcrowded, and simple refugee tents were set up on both sides of the Luo River and Yi River. With the increase in the number of refugees, the social security situation has also become chaotic.

Guan Shijie learned from the captains of several student patrol teams that three gang forces have formed among the refugees now, known as the Pingjin Gang, the Shanxi Gang and the Jiangsu Gang. The three groups often fight to occupy a better geographical location and do long-term work for people. The police station also has a headache for this.

Guan Shijie was worried that these people would cause big trouble over time, so he decided to go for an interview to see if the conflicts between the three groups could be resolved. For this reason, he discussed with Wu Yanzhang and others whether there were any good ways and ways to solve these problems.

"Team leader, I don't think there is any need to worry about these bad things. Maybe it won't take long before we leave Luoyang City." Xia Pengfei said.

"It's right to ask me to say that I'm in charge. These guys were dissuading at first, but now they don't take our patrol team seriously." Wu Yanzhang said.

"These people just want to make a living, solve their livelihoods, and all the problems are solved." Qin Chuan said: "Many people bring their families to Luoyang City. If they don't find anything to do for a day, the whole family can only go hungry, but where can there be so many things in the city for outsiders to do?"

"Qin Chuan is right. The porridge sheds set up by various departments and non-governmental organizations, including the porridge sheds of our secret service office, only serve two porridge meals a day. If you queue up late, you will have to be hungry. If the team leader wants to solve the problem from the root, he will help these people find a meal." Song Yuan said.

Guan Shijie smiled bitterly. Now there are no 40,000 or 50,000 or 20,000. It is a fantasy to settle tens of thousands of people and let everyone have a job to have enough food. But letting them fight each other will cause a disaster one day.

Most of the refugees are farmers. They lose their homes and the land they rely on for survival. They go into exile to Luoyang City and work hard to make a living by working hard. Among these people, there are also some illiterate young people who have never studied and are also the backbone of these gangs. In other words, if the ideological work of these people can be understood, these disputes can be minimized.

Guan Shijie thought of several methods, but overturned them one by one.

At this moment, the refugee wave in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japan attracted the attention of people from all walks of life. The reason was that refugees were often strafed and bombed by Japanese planes during their escape.

On December 10 alone, the 18th Japanese Division captured Wuhu, Anhui Province, and captured more than 2,000 refugees that day, drove them to the riverside, and all killed them with machine guns.

During the escape, the experience of women and children was even more miserable. Some people had to abandon their infants, and many children were starved to death or died in horror. Women and refugees could be captured by the Japanese army that pursued at any time and were tragically ravaged, becoming a tool for the Japanese army to vent their animal desires.

The various encounters of these refugees were reported in long-form manner by major domestic newspapers, radio and magazines. Under the supervision of public opinion, the Executive Yuan of the National Government promulgated the "Outline of Measures for Rescue Refugees in Extraordinary Times", and relief committees were established in various places.

With the help of all sectors of society, the Luoyang Relief Committee also raised funds to start relief activities. Such as the establishment of refugee shelters and child care centers, which encouraged public and private enterprises to collect refugees' employment, and each refugee can receive 2000 living expenses every day, alleviating some social pressure.

The relief committee also called on young and middle-aged people to immigrate to Sichuan, Shaanxi, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places, or to remote areas hundreds of kilometers away from Luoyang to reclaim land, and provide travel and living expenses.

However, some of the refugees in Luoyang City remained in the city after receiving travel expenses and living expenses, without any intention of immigrating. Not only that, the main figures of the three gangs that have formed a force also deducted five cents from each refugee's daily living expenses.

The local government sent a police station to force these people to leave, but the police station's police station was obviously insufficient, so they found Guan Shijie and the others to ask for help.

Guan Shijie dispatched more than 200 people among the students to be trained to cooperate with the police station's actions.

From January 10th to 15th, in five days, most of the people in the Jiangsu Gang and Shanxi Gang were persuaded to emigrate, leaving a very small number of people who found long-term jobs locally and could live in the city.

The leaders of these two gangs who commit extortion will be arrested and pending trial.

But when the Pingjin Gang was cleaned up, an accident occurred.
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