Chapter 121: Shanghai In 1937
Several years later, time came to 1937. Zhou Weiguo and Sun Xinpu, along with twenty other graduates from the 9th class of the Central Military Academy, had already arrived at the Berlin Military Academy for special training for some time. However, they would only be urgently recalled back to the country together with all the trainees from the Berlin Military Academy after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out, to stand by for the Anti-Japanese War.
Meanwhile, Zhou Wenhua, who had lost his whereabouts for several years, also returned to Shanghai here on February 1, 1937.
“Phew! There are still 10 days until Lunar New Year’s Eve, and then it will be the New Year. It’s been a long time since I came back to Shanghai!”
“It feels like I have been away from here for a very, very long time, as if it has been decades as long!”
Zhou Wenhua, who had just come down from an ocean liner of his own cruise ship company, also gazed at the prosperous and bustling Shanghai metropolis in front of him, murmuring to himself.
“However, this time I come back, after staying in Shanghai for a few days, I have to go to Beiping first to make some deployments to counter the Marco Polo Bridge Incident provoked by the Japanese Army!”
“At the very least, these damned Japanese troops should suffer more casualties in their ghost troops after provoking the war. Otherwise, I would have come back here for nothing. Of course, the Battle of Shanghai also needs to make even more Japanese troops suffer heavy casualties!”
“This is the reason why I returned to the country almost half a year in advance!”
“I must prepare some big surprises for these ambitious ghost troops!”
Then, Zhou Wenhua also showed a brilliant smile and muttered.
“Boss! The hotel for check-in has been arranged, right at the Peace Hotel!”
“I booked the presidential suite on the 10th floor for you!”
“Actually, I don’t understand why the boss doesn’t check in at our own hotel, but insists on going to someone else’s hotel?”
Chen Jiajun, the new butler promoted by Zhou Wenhua overseas, reported with a face full of puzzled confusion.
“Because there will be many interesting things happening there. Peace Hotel, this is not an ordinary hotel!”
“Here, you will see foreigners from various countries coming in and out, even intelligence officers from various foreign countries, including Japanese intelligence officers, who will come in and out here. So you can get a good feel of the complexity of the people here, and there might even be unexpected gains!”
“Moreover, this is also the most prosperous and bustling platinum area of the ‘golden triangle’ on Nanjing Road, the Bund, and the Huangpu River. The Peace Hotel is a landmark high-level construction on the Shanghai Bund scenic line, and it is also the city’s ‘landmark business card’ of this international metropolis, the number one landmark business card in the minds of all citizens on the Bund.”
“I heard there is also a ‘large restaurant that can accommodate 300 seats’ inside. Later, I want to taste what the dishes there are like!”
Zhou Wenhua, however, gazed at the conspicuous Peace Hotel in the distance, with a brilliant smile.
For this well-known large hotel with the nature of a landmark business card, he also wanted to spend some money there.
To feel the atmosphere of this era,
Of course, the name of the Peace Hotel at this time is called Cathay Hotel.
“Yes! Boss!”
Seeing that Zhou Wenhua was very interested in checking in at the Peace Hotel,
The new butler Chen Jiajun also agreed knowingly.
And he also prepared to arrange a car for Zhou Wenhua when he got off the ship, along with the bodyguard team that followed.
Not long after, the cruise ship carrying Zhou Wenhua docked at the bustling Huangpu River,
And Zhou Wenhua also brought more than a dozen bodyguards, as well as the new butler Chen Jiajun, together passing through the crowd of people rushing to get off the ship and the sea of people coming to pick up the ship,
Heading to the car team where another batch of his bodyguard team pre-deployed in Shanghai was located, and entered his own vehicle.
Then, they drove towards the Peace Hotel.
