Resource Tycoon Reborn

Chapter 156 The friendship between the Chinese and the Jews has a long history

Seeing what Fang Mingyuan and Spielberg were discussing, Li Guoqiang and Hua Fengshuo took a few steps back knowingly.

"Minister Hua, on behalf of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to your city for your active cooperation this time." Li Guoqiang said with a smile. This time, Spielberg came to Huaxia. Previously, no one from the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Government had

I don’t know. It was not until three days before Spielberg arrived in Shanghai that Fang Mingyuan informed the municipal party committee and government leaders about the matter through Sun Zhaolun, and mentioned that Fang Mingyuan intended to persuade Spielberg to direct a film about the Jiangning Massacre.

The leaders of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government of Shanghai naturally attach great importance to this matter. In their view, as an internationally renowned figure, the arrival of Spielberg is undoubtedly an important cultural exchange between China and the United States. Moreover, if it is true,

Being able to convince Spielberg to direct a film about the Jiangning Massacre, as Fang Mingyuan said, even if it does not reach the global influence of "Schindler's List", will undoubtedly be able to influence the growing violence of the Communist Party.

Right-wing forces are vigorously suppressing!

Some people in the domestic film industry have long proposed re-shooting the movie about the Jiangning Massacre. Especially after "Schindler's List" gained international popularity and the influence of the right-wing forces in Japan increased year by year, domestic movies

It can be said that the world's clamor for reshooting the Jiangning Massacre is growing day by day! However, due to various domestic and foreign reasons, as well as doubts about the directing abilities of domestic directors, the matter has quickly stalled.

If Fang Mingyuan's proposal is really feasible, it will undoubtedly be a timely help and solve many problems.

First of all, Spielberg is an American, a well-known Hollywood director, and has great influence in the United States! The Japanese government can have various reasons to prevent China from filming this movie, but they cannot stop the Americans, and

The U.S. government will never order Spielberg to stop filming because of the protests of the Japanese. Just like the British government has repeatedly protested to the U.S. government about Hollywood movies that vilified the British colonists, but it didn't listen.

Who do Americans want to punish for this?

If Spielberg directs this movie, it would be best if an American company finances it. In this way, the Japanese will naturally not be able to make irresponsible remarks about the friendly relations between China and Japan.

Secondly, if Spielberg directed this movie, none of the domestic filmmakers and directors would be able to doubt Spielberg's directing ability. After all, the results of "Schindler's List" are there.

This means that if you don’t have diamonds and diamonds, you don’t have porcelain work.

Thirdly, films directed by Spielberg can smoothly participate in public screenings and awards around the world, unlike Chinese films, which will be quite difficult to break into the film market of other countries! This will undoubtedly be beneficial.

Expand the influence of the film and let people all over the world know the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Jiangning! This will have an immeasurable effect on China establishing its position in the world and gaining overwhelming psychological and public opinion advantages over Japan!

Therefore, the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government reported the matter to the Central Propaganda Department and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, and at the same time immediately stated that they would fully cooperate with Fang Mingyuan. The Jiangning Massacre Memorial Hall was closed for half a day this afternoon to receive Spielberg and his entourage.

The result of the communication between the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government and the Jiangning Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government.

"Minister Li is so polite. We are all state cadres, so this little bit of help is what we should do. And it is our city's honor for Mr. Spielberg to come to Jiangning City." Hua Fengshuo quickly smiled and said,

"The leaders of the municipal party committee and city government attach great importance to it. They even sent elite soldiers from the TV station." Although both of them are propaganda ministers, Li Guoqiang is the propaganda minister of the municipality directly under the Central Government, which is equivalent to the provincial party committee propaganda department minister.

Qi Hua Fengshuo's level is much higher.

Li Guoqiang smiled and said: "Minister Hua, remember to give us a copy after the filming is completed. Moreover, it cannot be broadcast without the permission of Mr. Spielberg and Mr. Fang. The arrival of Mr. Spielberg

, the media don’t know it yet. If...haha, I think Minister Hua must understand after doing propaganda work for so many years!"

Hua Fengshuo nodded understandingly. If the media knew that Spielberg had come to China, they would have to ask frantically for interviews.

"Steven, in fact, not only did Rabe help the Chinese, Schindler also helped the Jews, we Chinese also helped you, the Jews!" Fang Mingyuan looked at the bones in the glass window and said in a deep voice.

Spielberg nodded and said: "I know that we Jews have come to China to settle in large numbers since ancient times. As early as hundreds of years ago, when China was still in the Song Dynasty, there were Jews who came to settle here.

, we did not suffer from racial discrimination. In the past few hundred years, when their compatriots in the West were driven away and massacred again and again, they multiplied and multiplied in the East. At that time, after our Jewish men were massacred, women were robbed and gave birth to other ethnic groups.

In raising children, Jews can only rely on the maternal line to continue their nation, while in the East, Jews have always retained their original habit of maintaining their bloodline through their fathers."

"Ah?" Fang Mingyuan scratched his head, but he didn't know this.

"So there is something that Fang doesn't know about?" Spielberg couldn't help laughing. For a while, the relationship between the two became a little closer. To be honest, when Fang Mingyuan saw Spielberg, he felt...

There was pressure. When Spielberg saw Fang Mingyuan, he was also under pressure. A young man who was not even twenty years old had already achieved results that Spielberg himself was envious of. Faced with such

It's a monster character. It's a shame that Spielberg doesn't feel any pressure.

When Fang Mingyuan showed surprise at that moment, Spielberg suddenly felt that the Fang Mingyuan in front of him was a living young man. Once the pressure in his heart was gone, everyone naturally talked more casually.

"I also accidentally saw some historical records in the Israeli archives. As mentioned above, during the Song Dynasty of China, there were Jews who came to China by sea and settled in China. At that time, they mainly lived in your country.

...Kaofeng and swept away!" Spielberg spoke Chinese for the last two terms, which made Fang Mingyuan confused. Was there such a place name in China's past?

Spielberg explained a few more words, and then Fang Mingyuan finally understood, Kaifeng and Quanzhou!

"At that time, you Chinese people seemed to call them Blue Hat Huihui!" Spielberg said with some uncertainty.

A gift to those who have a happy career! Fang Mingyuan immediately understood what he said. However, when he thought about it, he couldn't help but slap his head. A gift to those who have a happy career. If he thought quickly, aren't they Israelis? Aren't they the Jews!

"Furthermore, I also know that in this century, China has also accepted a large number of Jews who immigrated to China due to persecution. For example, the district with Rainbow Mouth in Shanghai!" Spielberg said distressedly, "Your place names in China

, many of them are hard to pronounce, let alone understand the meaning.”

"The area of ​​Rainbow's mouth?" Fang Mingyuan murmured several times, his eyes brightened and he said, "Hongkou area!"

"Yes, yes, that's how it's pronounced, Hong...kou area!" Spielberg nodded repeatedly. "When I was in Israel, I met many old people who mentioned this place. That's where they lived during World War II.

A human ark!”

Hongkou District of Shanghai City was an important Jewish gathering place during World War II.

At that time, due to Nazi Germany's persecution and attempt to exterminate the Jewish nation in Europe, Jews had to flee one after another in order to survive. The United States was the place that Jews yearned for most, but American diplomats told the Jews that the quota for people going to the United States was full and there was nothing they could do; Britain

Worried that Jews going to Palestine would cause a backlash in the Arab world, they simply refused to accept the Jews. Other countries were also afraid of Hitler's power and coldly closed their doors to them.

Since the Shanghai Stock Exchange at that time became one of the five trading ports due to China's defeat in the Opium War, eleven countries had designated "Lease Zones" there. In the 1930s, becoming the only Jew in the world did not require a visa.

It is a city with free entry and exit. Jews in the German-controlled areas of Europe were able to use this convenience to flee here in large numbers. At its peak, tens of thousands of Jews lived in the Hongkou District of Shanghai!

Later, the Japanese army invaded China and after the fall of Shanghai, in order to curry favor with Hitler, the Japanese army also planned to exterminate the Jews in Shanghai. However, due to international public opinion, they could not implement it. Later, they also planned to exterminate the Jews in Hongkou District, where there are two alleys with the highest concentration of Jews.

At one time, the Japanese army welded iron gates to the front and rear exits, prohibiting entry and exit for a year! In an attempt to starve them all to death.

But most of the more than 2,000 people trapped in the alley miraculously survived in the end! It was because the Shanghai citizens living around felt pity for them and often secretly risked being caught by the Japanese.

The use of "air drop" - the primitive method of throwing bread and other food over helped them.

After the end of World War II, almost all of these Jews left, some went to the United States, and others went to the Middle East. Some of them became the first generation of founding fathers after the restoration of Israel.

"We Jews will never forget the kindness given to us by the Chinese people! In Israel, the history of the Jews' refuge in the Shanghai Stock Exchange of China is written into the textbooks! It is written into the genealogy and family history!" Spielberg said deeply.

One person said with emotion, "I saw in the Independence Square in Lishun, Israel, a circle of stone pillars around the Independence Fire. There were words on it that said: Without their help, there would be no today! There was a stone pillar engraved with Hua Xia.

"

Speaking of this, Spielberg himself was a little emotional, "If my relatives could have escaped to China at that time, they would not have died in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany!"