Chapter 583: Yokosuka Feels Sorry
Zheng Xudong walked out of this five-story white building, and did not rush to get on the plane to return to China, but walked along the seaside.
This is the second time he has come to Japan, the last time he came to Fukushima to steal nuclear materials, but that time he "came in a hurry, and he went in a hurry", and he almost passed by the Japanese benzene guards, and he left Japan as if he had escaped.
Today he is not in a hurry, and this is Yokosuka of Nippon, and the most famous thing here is the Pacific Seventh Fleet stationed here by the United States, since it is a pity not to come here to take a look!
At this time, it was already one o'clock in the morning, and there was a light pole every twenty meters on the narrow street, on which a small dim light bulb was lit, which was by no means a street lamp that scandalized the day, in Zheng Xudong's view, the lights here were indeed not lit, just to ensure that the driver could see the road ahead, the road was also very narrow, many of them were one-way lanes, even if they were double-lined, they were not sufficient. But there is one thing that cannot be compared to Modu or other cities in China, and that is hygiene.
The streets of Ribenz are so clean everywhere, there is not even a single scrap of paper, the gray sidewalk bricks, the black asphalt road, the gray is pure, the black is translucent, and the most surprising thing for Zheng Xudong is that the dirt in the gaps of the sidewalk bricks is cleaned up, and he can't see it at all.
He took out a box of camel cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and put it in his mouth, and took out the Dupont lighter he bought in Dubai, opened it with a "ding", and lit the cigarette.
Walking on the street in the early hours of Yokosuka, seeing a figure on each light pole, Zheng Xudong asked Xiao Aizhi if he knew who this person was, and Xiao Ai told him that this was the invader of Nippon back then: General Perry.
One of the characteristics of the Japanese nation is that it worships the strong and looks down on the weak.
Whoever conquers him, he worships whom, for example, the United States, he was the first country to open the door to the country of Japan, and the Japanese benzene was closed to the country like the late Qing Dynasty, but the American general Perry landed on the seashore below Yokosuka with a strong ship and a cannon.
In the history of RB, Perry's arrival in Japan was known as the "Black Ship Coming". At that time, the U.S. fleet in Japan actually consisted of only four warships, which was not large, but it was the first time that the Japanese people saw ironclad warships, and these four ships had 63 cannons, while the Japanese had only 20 shore guns for land defense. General Perry proudly set foot on the land of Nichiban in Kurihama and handed over a letter from the President of the United States to the Tokugawa shogunate, demanding that Nibien open a treaty port, and presented telegraphs and model trains. The Japanese were stunned. They did not expect that there would be such an advanced country in the world - before that, they had only 2 teachers, first in China and later in the Netherlands.
However, allowing foreigners to land, live, and trade was inconsistent with the Japanese system at the time, and the Tokugawa shogunate, which held real power, had to refrain from discussing and agreed to talk again the following year. In the spring of the following year, Perry arrived again with the warship, this time sailing straight for Yokohama, and the Tokugawa shogunate and the United States finally signed the Japan-Mi Peace Treaty, allowing passing American ships to anchor at RB.
Three years later, the Tokugawa shogunate signed another agreement with the United States, this time to open treaty ports, establish consulates, recognize consular jurisdiction, freedom of trade, and negotiate tariffs between the two countries. Subsequently, the United Kingdom, Russia, the Netherlands, and France also signed contracts with RB one after another.
The loss of sovereignty was very frustrating to the Japanese people, and then the samurai at the bottom of the Japanese and Ben launched a series of rebellions - some assassinated American embassy personnel, some burned British consulates, and the most important thing was the shelling of American merchant ships and French and Dutch warships. However, the 17 warships of Britain, the United States, France, and the Netherlands won the war in only three days, and Japan and Benese only had to end it with reparations.
Every time Zheng Xudong listened to the history teacher talk about this history, he always felt that the Boxer Rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty was very similar to the history of Japan, but the ending was just the opposite.
Through this incident, the people who rebelled against Japan realized that only after revitalizing industry and commerce, expanding trade, and making themselves more powerful could they contend with the West, and blind xenophobia could only suffer losses. As a result, the Tokugawa Shogunate, which had been in power for 280 years, was expelled from the stage of history and the ruling power was returned to the emperor, and the "Meiji Restoration," which is very familiar to our compatriots, began at this time.
In order to commemorate General Perry's opening of the country with a strong ship and a cannon, the Japanese people also built a monument for this purpose, and the inscription on the monument was written by the then RB Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi: "Monument to the Landing of Admiral Bury of the North American States" - that is, it was here that the U.S. Navy first landed on Japanese territory. Bury written on the stele is what is now known as General Perry of the United States.
This is simply incomprehensible to the Chinese! Being beaten by others, in order to commemorate this crazy flattening, a monument was erected to the person who beat you, and a certain time every year is also commemorated. What a perverted nation, a group of special psychopaths! This is what Zheng Xudong thought when he studied history.
Although the city of Yokosuka is small, it is not only clean but also very tidy, and Zheng Xudong saw that all the vehicles were parked off the road, and the road was smooth. Vehicles must be parked in their own parking spaces or parking lots, at least Zheng Xudong did not see the phenomenon of random parking.
On the side of the road, he also saw a parking sign with red letters on a yellow background, which said that parking for 30 minutes during the day is 200 yen (about 10 yuan), and at night for 300 yen (about 16 yuan). This price is relatively cheap even in China's third-tier cities, not to mention the magic capital where Zheng Xudong lives, but the parking fee is so cheap in a place where every inch of land is expensive.
Yokosuka is mainly a military port, and the headquarters of the Nippon Maritime Self-Defense Force and the headquarters of the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet are all in the city, just a few hundred meters above the sea in front of you, and the ship's mast is faintly visible.
Yokosuka is located at the entrance to Tokyo Bay, the equivalent of Tokyo's maritime gateway, which is why Perry landed here in the first place. Zheng Xudong walked past a Mikasa Park, and after entering the park, he learned that Mikasa was a battleship ordered by Nippon in the United Kingdom, and then became the flagship of the Japanese-Ben Combined Fleet. One year after the purchase of the Mikasa, the Japanese and Russia went to war, the most famous battle in the naval battle was the Battle of Tsushima, 38 Russian battleships were sunk 21 ships, 9 were captured, the Russian Second Pacific Fleet was almost completely annihilated, and the Japanese only lost 3 torpedo boats, known as the most disparity in naval battles in history.
Twenty years after Mikasa's great military exploits, it was scrapped due to disarmament and preserved in Yokosuka as a memorial ship.
From the First Sino-Japanese War to the Russo-Japanese War, in 10 years, the small Japanese benzene actually defeated two huge countries. For example, when its combined fleet sailed into the Yellow Sea and wanted to fight with the Beiyang Naval Division, it had already made three plans: upper, middle and lower, and the next strategy was that the Beiyang Naval Division defeated the combined fleet and then attacked the Japanese Benzene mainland, and the remnants of the fleet must resist to the death on the mainland. As for the war against Russia, the Japanese navy has no way to retreat at all, and can only take a risk. However, with flexible tactics and high-quality soldiers, RB actually beat this opponent who was 3 times its own to a complete collapse.
In front of the Mikasa Memorial Ship, there is a bronze statue, this is the bronze statue of Togo Heihachiro, during the Sino-Japanese War, he was the captain of the Naniwa ship, and the first battle in the Sino-Japanese naval battle was when he ordered the sinking of the Gao Sheng (a British merchant ship, which was chartered by our country to transport troops to North Korea). During the Russo-Japanese War, Heihachiro Togo, who had become the commander of the Combined Fleet, achieved a great victory and was known as the "God of War".
However, Zheng Xudong's heart was heavy when he saw it - next to the gangway of the Mikasa Memorial Ship, there were some firearms on display, among them, there was a pair of swarthy shells, and the explanation board next to them showed that they were from the Zhenyuan ship of China's Beiyang Naval Division.
There is also a small multi-barreled cannon next to the shell, which is also a trophy of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the explanation board says that this cannon is on the Zhiyuan ship, that is, Deng Shichang's warship.
There is no doubt that the First Sino-Japanese War left us with infinite sorrow. This war has made all Chinese understand a truth, backwardness will be beaten. But the old lady in charge of the government doesn't care about that, she only cares about the garden to celebrate her birthday, alas!
Mikasa Park faces a small bay with a peninsula at the other end of the bay where the headquarters of the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet is located. That would definitely not be open to the public, Zheng Xudong could only stand here and look at the Seventh Fleet Command from afar.
In fact, the US Seventh Fleet is part of the Pacific Fleet, and its headquarters is located here, as well as in Sasebo and Okinawa in Japan, and in Busan, South Korea, and Singapore, and is equipped with warships such as the USS Huashengton, the USS Blue Ridge, and the amphibious landing ship "Blue Ridge," as well as cruisers, destroyers, frigates, submarines, and so on.
The aircraft carrier "Hua Shengton" is certainly the capital ship of the Seventh Fleet. From a distance, Xiao Ai introduced him to the parameters of the aircraft carrier in his mind, with a length of 330 meters, a displacement of 97,000 tons, a crew of 6,000 people, carrying 85 fighters, and a maximum of 140 aircraft.
Next to it is the destroyer "Lassen", which is 155 meters long, has a displacement of 9,200 tons, is equipped with the Aegis system, and 2 Sea Hawk helicopters.
There is also the destroyer "Starsen", which belongs to the Arleigh Burke class with the "Lassen".
In the same waters as the Seventh Fleet is the Japan-Bon Maritime Self-Defense Force, which was disbanded after World War II and later re-established due to the Korean War, but can only be called the Self-Defense Force. Yokosuka is home to the headquarters of the Self-Defense Forces. There are three major military ports in Nibon, Yokosuka in the north, Sasebo in the south, and Kure in the middle.
Xiao Ai told him that the first was the "Hyuga" helicopter destroyer of the Japan-Bon Maritime Self-Defense Force, which is 197 meters long, has a displacement of 14,000 tons, and can carry 11 helicopters.
Then the 152 ship on the right is a Asagiri-class destroyer, which has been reduced to a training ship, with a length of 137 meters, a displacement of 4900 tons, equipped with anti-submarine aircraft and a variety of missiles.
Next the "Murayu" class destroyer, 151 meters long, with a displacement of 6200 tons, carries an anti-submarine helicopter.
In the Yokosuka military port, the Star-Spangled Banner and the Sun Flag fluttered side by side, and Zheng Xudong was inevitably indignant when he saw this scene. Seventy years ago, the Chinese national flag fluttered side by side with the Stars and Stripes, and the sun flag was the enemy that China and the United States jointly attacked, but who would have thought that it would be completely changed after a few years. After the release of "Pearl Harbor", a classmate in Zheng Xudong's class asked the history teacher, why did the United States still call it brothers and allies when the Japanese attacked and killed so many Americans? The history teacher at that time did not answer this question, but only said, "This question is not on the syllabus of the 2010 college entrance examination" and then turned around and left!
On the opposite side of the military port was a civilian wharf, and Zheng Xudong saw a giant cargo ship no smaller than an aircraft carrier docked in the port.
"Xiao Ai, what kind of freighter is that, the size is so big, and the shape is so special!" Zheng Xudong asked Xiao Ai in his mind.
"Master, after I'm done, you're going to love what's on this freighter. Xiao Ai said naughtily.