After the two met, Jiang Hongtao first said, "What is your name and what is your identity?"

Kishida Kogoro said: "My name is Kishida Kogoro, and he is the mayor of Haza Town, what is the name of this chief?

Jiang Hongtao said: "We are the People's Army of the East China Government, and my surname is Jiang. ”

Kishida Kogoro smiled bitterly, in fact, he could also guess that this army must be the People's Army, just to confirm, so he nodded and said: "I understand, Chief Jiang, we are willing to surrender to you, and the town is now full of civilians, there is no army, I hope you can respect the [Geneva Convention] to ensure the safety and property of civilians." ”

Jiang Hongtao said: "Mayor Kishida, it seems that you have not seen the situation clearly, now you are not qualified to talk to us about any conditions, and we will not make any promises to you, you only have two choices, one is to surrender and obey any of our orders, and the other is to resist, we will attack immediately." Take your pick. ”

Kishida Kogoro was stunned for a moment and said, "Chief Jiang, this is an act that violates international conventions. ”

Jiang Hongtao sneered and said: "Don't take the international convention as a talisman, there are a few countries that will really take the international convention seriously, if you are not satisfied, you can go to other countries in the future and ask them to come out to administer justice for you, but now you only have these two choices, so hurry up and choose, our time is very precious." ”

Kishida Kogoro stayed for a while, finally nodded, and said, "I understand, Chief Jiang, we will absolutely obey your orders, I just hope you can be tolerant and not too cruel." ”

Jiang Hongtao was also a little surprised, it seems that this Japanese is not brainless, but of course such a person is easier to deal with, so he also nodded and said: "Of course, if you can guarantee absolute obedience to our orders, of course we will not kill innocents indiscriminately." ”

Kishida Kogoro also breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay, but I also want to ask you to give me a little more time so that I can go back and convince the others." ”

Jiang Hongtao nodded, this request is not too much, although Kishida Kogoro agreed to his conditions, but the other Japanese in Haza Town did not know, so Kishida Kogoro naturally needed a little time to go back and persuade the others, so he said: "Yes, but I can only give you 1 hour at most." And don't think about playing any tricks, if we find anything unusual about your actions, we'll attack immediately. ”

Kishida Kogoro hurriedly said: "Enough, enough, 1 hour is enough, please rest assured, we will never dare to make any changes." ”

Jiang Hongtao said: "Okay, then you can go." ”

Kishida Kogoro hurriedly returned to Haza Town, while Jiang Hongtao ordered the troops to drive directly to the edge of Haza Town and wait for the battle, which was also to put pressure on the Japanese in Haza Town.

As a result, after only waiting for about 40 minutes, Kishida Kogoro came out of the town, and reported to Jiang Hongtao that he had convinced the Japanese in the town.

So Jiang Hongtao ordered the troops to march into the town and arrange military guards at intersections, traffic roads, etc.

After entering the town, I saw that the town was basically full of bungalows, and many of them were dilapidated, but every household was closed and did not dare to come out, of course, you can see that there are still many Japanese peeking out in the cracks of the doors and windowsills, it seems that Kishida Kogoro's persuasion work is still good, but in the shelling just now, some of the wreckage of the houses, many of them are still smoking, and the residents who were killed by the bombing are still on the ground, covered with a reed mat.

Jiang Hongtao first inspected the warehouses in the town to see how much food and materials could be obtained, because the People's Army was going to hold on to the Noto Peninsula for a long time, so some materials that could be collected on the spot, such as grain and other materials, should be collected on the spot as much as possible, and this time a large number of people were plundered from Japan, and it was also necessary to reserve enough grain in advance.

But the result made Jiang Hongtao very disappointed, the grain storage in Yuzha Town was only a few hundred kilograms, so Jiang Hongtao couldn't help but say: "Kishida, do you have such a little grain in the town?"

Kishida Kogoro said: "Where, although our town is not a reserve area, the usual reserve of grain is generally more than 100 tons, and at most it exceeds 200 tons, but since the beginning of the previous year, Japan and Russia have been at war, and until now, our town has been requisitioned three times for grain, and now there is only so little left." ”

Jiang Hongtao asked again: "Do you have any rice shops in the town?" or who is the richest? ”

Kishida Kogoro smiled bitterly and said: "Our town is a small place, and most of the residents make a living by fishing and catching seafood, even if there are a few families who live a little better, they are only well-off, and there are a few rice shops, but they all buy grain from other places, and the inventory is only a few tons." It's not as good as Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto, but some of them are rich and wealthy, but even Kanazawa, Komatsu, and Kaga are not as good as them. However, Chief Jiang wants to eat seafood, and we can supply some of it. ”

Jiang Hongtao couldn't help but be a little speechless when he heard this, but looking at the appearance of Yuza Town, it is indeed not a prosperous and developed place, so this Kishida Kogoro does not look like he is lying. I had to say, "Okay, you tell me the location of a few rice shops first." ”

After going around the town, Jiang Hongtao followed Kishida Kogoro to his office, which was also changed to the temporary headquarters of the People's Army.

After sitting down, Jiang Hongtao said again: "Kishida, we need some labor now, so we ask Yuza Town to recruit 2,000 young men and 1,000 young women in one day." ”

Kishida Kogoro smiled bitterly and said, "Chief Jiang, it is not difficult to recruit 1,000 young and strong women, but 2,000 young and middle-aged men are really not available in the town, and if you have to go to the surrounding areas outside the town to collect, I am afraid that it will not be completed in one day." ”

Jiang Hongtao said: "There are about 15,000 people in your town, and under normal circumstances, there should be 4,000 young and middle-aged men, how can you not even get together 2,000 people?"

Kishida Kogoro smiled bitterly and said: "There are about 4,500 young and middle-aged men in the town, but the government has twice recruited labor in the town, and more than 2,800 people have been requisitioned, all of them are young and strong men, and now there are indeed less than 2,000 young and middle-aged men in the town." ”

When Jiang Hongtao heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned for a while, and then he remembered that in the old time and space, although Japan won the Russo-Japanese War, it did not take advantage of anything at the negotiating table, Sakhalin Island only accounted for half of it, and it was still actually occupied by the Japanese army, and the reparations did not receive a penny, the reason is that although Japan won on the battlefield, it had exhausted its national strength, and its domestic economy had almost completely collapsed, and it could not continue to fight at all, and it was actually more urgent than Russia to talk about a peace armistice, so it gave up the reparations and only sought an armistice as soon as possible。

And in this era, due to the intervention of the East China government, the war lasted longer than the old time and space, and after the People's Army entered the war, Japan suffered a major defeat on the battlefield, so the consumption of financial resources was more than that of the old time and space, and the domestic situation was naturally worse, although there is now economic aid from Britain and France, but it is also a drop in the bucket, and the situation in Haza Town is a good example, and I am afraid it is also a microcosm of the whole of Japan.

However, of course, Jiang Hongtao would not fully believe Kishida Kogoro's words, so he sent troops to conduct a house-to-house inventory of Haza Town, and Kishida Kogoro naturally accompanied the whole process, and as a result, he inspected two rice stores in the town and obtained about 15 tons of grain; and six aquatic product stores were inspected, and about 23 tons of various seafood were obtained, including 15 tons of marine fish and shellfish, and about 8 tons of seafood such as kelp and seaweed. Iodine and other substances are good foods. In addition, more than 20 chickens, ducks and other poultry were caught. However, there are no livestock in the town.

In terms of population, only 1,426 young and middle-aged men were identified, and in the end, only more than 1,000 young and middle-aged men and more than 1,500 young and middle-aged women were recruited from Haza Town, and these people became the first batch of labor recruited by the People's Army after landing in Japan. In the process of the investigation, Kishida Kogoro played a big role, and it was under his persuasion that the expropriation and conscription of the People's Army did not encounter any resistance, and the rice shops and aquatic product stores honestly handed over the stored grain and aquatic products, and the recruited labor force was also very obedient and followed the People's Army.

And Jiang Hongtao was also a little impressed by Kishida Kogoro, it seems that this guy has some ability, and the next day, Jiang Hongtao gave Kishida Kogoro another task, asking him to organize the fishermen of Haza Town, set up a fishing team, operate in the sea area designated by the People's Army, and provide seafood for the People's Army. After receiving Jiang Hongtao's report, Luo Yue thought that if there was a stable supply of seafood, it would be a good result, even if seafood could not be used as a staple food, but as a dish, condiment, and nutritional supplement were all good choices, so he asked Jiang Hongtao to organize a fishing team in Yuzao Town to supply seafood to the People's Army.

The town of Haza was originally a seafood fishing industry, but the fishing and sales of seafood were monopolized by a few seafood shops in the town, and the more than a dozen large fishing boats that the People's Army saw at the wharf were all owned by these seafood shops, and they hired captains and seafarers to go out to sea to fish, and the owners of some seafood shops were themselves captains, and other individual fishermen were also attached to the names of these seafood stores, and the products they caught were purchased by several seafood stores and then entered the market, and could not be sold directly to the outside world. Of course, this is also a common phenomenon in Japan's seafood fishing industry.

However, after the arrival of the KPA, the order of the seafood fishing industry in Haza Town was broken, so in order for the KPA to obtain stable seafood, it was necessary to reorganize the fishermen, and this task naturally fell to Kishida Kogoro.

After arranging these things, Jiang Hongtao left another battalion to garrison Yuzha Town, and returned to the seaside position with other troops and the recruited male and female laborers.