Chapter 67: Unbelievable

On April 14, there was a light rain in Pingchuan, and in Fang Mingyuan's own courtyard, Fang Mingyuan received two uninvited Japanese guests.

"Ms. Iwasaki, is Chairman Iwasaki Masayan your own brother?" Fang Mingyuan asked, he was really a little blindsided about the arrival of Iwasaki Zexue, the earthquake broke out at ten o'clock last night, and less than twenty-four hours have passed now, Iwasaki Zexue, even if it is a woman, if Iwasaki Masayan is her own brother, then her status in the Iwasaki family should not be low. How could she not greet her in such a rude manner? If she hadn't brought the token of the Iwasaki family, Fang Mingyuan would not have received her.

"Hey, I'm third, and my second brother is Iwasaki Masayoshi. Iwasaki Zexue's eyes did not hide her curiosity about Fang Mingyuan, although Fang Mingyuan's name can be said to be thunderous in Japan, but it was the first time she saw a real person, and she was really curious about this young man who was just over thirty years old, but he was able to achieve results that attracted the attention of the world. But at this time, she immediately suppressed her curiosity.

"Why did President Iwasaki Masayan send you here?" asked Fang Mingyuan.

"I'm here to carry out the will of my eldest brother and the former head of the Iwasaki family, Masayo Iwasaki. Iwasaki Zexue took out a briefcase from the middle-aged man who came with her, and presented it to Fang Mingyuan with both hands.

"The former head of the family?" Fang Mingyuan did not stretch out his hand to take the briefcase, but said in a startled manner, "Why did Chairman Iwasaki Masayan die?" Iwasaki Masayan is the head of the Mitsubishi Foundation, and he has not heard of any acute illness, why did he suddenly pass away? No wonder he saw that Iwasaki Zexue's eyes were a little red and swollen, presumably because of crying.

"The eldest brother committed suicide in the early hours of this morning!" Iwasaki Zexue was already choked up, "He knows that he is guilty, so he asks us to make amends to Fang Jun on his behalf! The second brother can't get out and come in person, so I can only come." ”

"Huh, you said he committed suicide?" Fang Mingyuan almost jumped up from his chair, he never dreamed that Iwasaki Masayan actually committed suicide!

"Hey, the former head of the family knew that he had made a big mistake, causing heavy casualties to the people, and he had also failed to live up to your kindness, so he committed suicide in the early hours of this morning. The position of head of the family has been taken over by President Iwasaki Yoshikomi. However, this news has not been made public by our family. The middle-aged man sitting next to Iwasaki Zexue replied respectfully, "Before the former head of the family decided to commit suicide, he asked us to send these things to Fang Jun in person, apologize to Fang Jun, and ask Fang Jun not to refuse!"

Fang Mingyuan was a little dazed, he didn't react a little, the occurrence of the "April 13 East Japan Earthquake", Iwasaki Masayan certainly had to bear some responsibility, but as for committing suicide to apologize? Isn't it an exaggeration?

Iwasaki Zexue saw Fang Mingyuan's blankness, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart. Fang Mingyuan is not Japanese after all, and he still does not have a deep understanding of some traditions of Japanese society. Although she said that since the "April 13 East Japan Earthquake" occurred, she has been busy preparing for Fang Mingyuan's apology and thinking about how to communicate with Fang Mingyuan, but the news after the earthquake was naturally sent to her like flowing water. As the sky brightened, the rescue workers dispatched quickly entered the disaster area, and the people and government agencies in the disaster area also actively launched self-rescue, and the tragic scene that could not be seen directly after the disaster was gradually revealed. According to Yukio Hatoyama, the Great East Japan Earthquake and the resulting tsunami were the biggest crisis Japan has faced since World War II.

Although the magnitude of the earthquake has not yet been finalized, and although Japan has the world's first-class earthquake prevention technology, it is only better than other countries in the face of earthquakes of magnitude 9.9 or above. In the disaster area, many buildings collapsed or deformed with obvious cracks, a large number of roads collapsed, and large-scale power outages occurred in the disaster area. Gas leaks occurred in many places in the city, causing fires everywhere. Among them, the East Japan Ironworks of Nippon Iron and Steel Engineering Holding Co., Ltd., located in Chiba Prefecture, exploded due to a broken gas pipeline, and fierce flames rushed into the sky dozens of meters high, and production was forced to be suspended. Even Tokyo, which is nearly 400 kilometers away from the epicenter, had extremely obvious tremors, with some buildings collapsing, the most notable of which was the Tokyo Tower, a famous landmark in Tokyo, which was significantly skewed in the top third of the tower due to the strong earthquake that affected it. Fortunately, there were no tourists sightseeing on the tower at that time, and the emergency evacuation of the staff was quick and orderly, and there were no deaths, only a few people had minor abrasions or sprains.

Moreover, there is conclusive evidence that the highest wave of the tsunami caused by the "413 Great East Japan Earthquake" is not 8 meters as stated in the tsunami warning issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency, but 26 meters!, and the Pacific coastline of the three most severely affected prefectures has complex topography, the coast is intertwined, and there are multiple bays, and the terrain of the bay is often narrower the closer to the interior, and when the tsunami enters the bay, the wave head is easy to become more and more high!

The waves that reach the coastline of Japan are generally more than 10 meters, although it is not as amazing as the waves in "The Day After Tomorrow", but for the breakwaters off the coast of Japan, it is already an undefensible wave, and the sea water rushes through the breakwater like a bamboo, rushing into the interior of Honshu Island for several kilometers, and sweeping most of the "obstacles" that stand in front of it wherever it passes! The Sendai Airport built on the coast was completely washed by the sea, the runway was destroyed, and all flights stopped taking off and landing! Many wharves along the coast were badly damaged, and many small ships were washed ashore by the sea, even thousands of kilometers inland!

However, compared with the property damage, what makes the Japanese deeply feel the large number of casualties and missing people is the large number of casualties and disappearances of the people! Although all sides issued tsunami warnings at the first time, and the Japanese Government has conducted many exercises before, because of the long coastline involved and the fact that it occurred at night when people were sleeping or about to fall asleep, the casualties caused by the earthquake and the astonishing tsunami to Japan can be said to be extremely heavy.

According to the latest casualty report received by Iwasaki Sawayuki, more than 2,600 people have died and more than 34,000 are missing in Japan due to the earthquake and tsunami. Some areas, a town, the name of a kind of administrative district in Japan, is equivalent to a town in Huaxia, with a population of less than 50,000 to more than 5,000, and almost two-thirds of the inhabitants of Ri are missing! Considering that the Japanese government's method of counting the number of missing people is different from that of many other countries, the number of missing people is certainly even more alarming than the figures in the report.

The Fukushima Daiichi and No. 2 nuclear power plants had been submerged by the sea, and by the time she arrived in Hirakawa, the water in the plant area was still more than one meter high! Many buildings in the plant were damaged to varying degrees, and because of the earthquake, a total of eight nuclear power plants in Japan, including them, were damaged to a greater or lesser extent, and four of them belonged to Yukio Hatoyama, who had been suppressing them and not allowing them to restart their nuclear power plants.

One can imagine how great the risk of a nuclear accident would have been if these four nuclear power plants had been operating normally at the time of the earthquake and tsunami! And his brother had put pressure on Yukio Hatoyama in the past with the Hibiscus Consortium to restart the six nuclear power plants owned by the three major power companies, and even wanted to oust Yukio Hatoyama from the post of prime minister! Now, Yukio Hatoyama has survived, and the Mitsubishi Foundation and Masayo Iwasaki are naturally in a predicament......

Fang Mingyuan took the briefcase and came to his study, where Sister Lin Lian was already sitting waiting for him.

"Mingyuan, what is that woman doing here?" Lin Lian stood up and asked eagerly, she has been in Japan for many years, and her understanding of Japanese society is actually above Fang Mingyuan, who is floating all over the world! She has a clear understanding of the influence of the Iwasaki family and the Mitsubishi Foundation in Japanese society. Iwasaki Zexue, she has heard and seen this person, although she has no deep friendship, but she also knows that her status in the Iwasaki family is not low, and to a large extent, she can influence Iwasaki Masayan!

Of course, this fame is not all a good reputation, saying that she has everything, Lin Lian has heard a lot, but how many of them are true, she can't judge. She suddenly ran to the ancient city of Pingchuan to meet Fang Mingyuan silently, if Fang Mingyuan didn't allow it, she really wanted to meet this woman with Fang Mingyuan and see what kind of medicine she could sell in this gourd!

"Iwasaki Masayan is dead! Suicide!" Fang Mingyuan sat on the chair and let out a sigh of relief, "No, this is the Iwasaki family's gift of reparation to me according to his last words!"

"Iwasaki Masaya committed suicide and died?" Sister Lin Lian looked incredulous, and Lin Rong, who was originally sitting, bounced up directly from the sofa and shouted in unison. The actual controller of the Mitsubishi Consortium, the head of the Iwasaki family, is definitely one of the top few people in Japan, and the number of people who can be on an equal footing with him is estimated to be two slaps, and such a person would actually commit suicide and die, and send Fang Mingyuan a gift of reparation, which sounds a bit like a fantasy.

Lin Rong and Lin Lian glanced at each other, and what they saw from each other's eyes and faces was unbelievable, to say that he was assassinated, it was more credible than this! How could a character like Iwasaki Masayan easily choose to commit suicide?

Fang Mingyuan pointed to the official folder on the table and said: "The list of things is here, and it is Iwasaki Zexue who came to report the funeral is Iwasaki Masaya's own sister, in this kind of matter, there should be no need for her to lie, right?" Lin Lian's sister's mood, he could understand it completely, he couldn't believe it at that time, he suspected that it was his ear hallucination, that kind of old guy, I don't know how many swords and swords he has encountered in his life, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is as determined as iron, how can he easily commit suicide?

Lin Lian picked up the briefcase, only looked at it twice, and couldn't help but cover her mouth and exclaim, the briefcase is not too thick, that is, twenty or thirty pieces of paper, and the first one on the first piece of paper is "Xiaoxiang Lying Tour"! "Xiaoxiang Lying Tour", not many people in China know it, according to legend, it was made by a painter surnamed Li in the Southern Song Dynasty, and later it was praised as the first masterpiece of landscape painting in the Southern Song Dynasty! It was also the favorite landscape painting of the Qianlong Emperor, and it was lost overseas in the late Qing Dynasty and acquired by Japanese collectors. Lin Lian was fortunate enough to see it displayed at the Tokyo National Museum, although she did not have any appreciation for landscape painting, but she was still infected by the artistic conception in the painting, and completely immersed in the vast landscape in the painting, which also left a deep impression on her! It can be said that for Huaxia, it is definitely one of the top national treasures lost overseas!

She looked down again, and the second one still shocked her, which was recognized as the highest level of flower and bird painting in the Southern Song Dynasty courtyard - Li Di's "Red and White Hibiscus", which she had also seen in the Tokyo National Museum. These two paintings were originally collected in the Old Summer Palace, but they were later lost overseas and fell into Japan!

Lin Lian looked at the list and whispered, but Lin Rong didn't come over, but frowned slightly: "Mingyuan, you said that Iwasaki Zhengyan committed suicide, and sent Iwasaki Zexue to come with these things to make amends to you?"

Fang Mingyuan told Lin Rong as much detail as possible about the conversation between the two of them, and sighed: "It's really unimaginable, he would actually commit suicide, and now the head of the Iwasaki family is his younger brother Iwasaki Masei." It's also a little difficult for me to get these things, take them, I can't figure out their intentions, it's a pity not to accept them!" Although he didn't pay much attention to collectibles such as cultural relics and antiques, as long as he looked at the dynasties attached to the names one by one, and then thought about Iwasaki Masaya Since he wanted to make amends, it was naturally impossible to take fakes and road goods, so you can imagine how precious those things are.

"Although I said that before the 'April 13 East Japan Earthquake', I made an agreement with the six major foundations and the Japanese government that they would return the cultural relics that our country had illegally lost to Japan as my reward, but the Iwasaki family was the first to come, which was a bit surprising to me. Fang Mingyuan pinched his eyebrows and said. Although there are a large number of Chinese cultural relics in Japan, many of which are top national treasures, Fang Mingyuan feels that there is really not enough reason to ask for cultural relics like those that flowed overseas before the Ming Dynasty or even before the middle of the Qing Dynasty, because the time is too long to discern the reason for the loss of these cultural relics. And at that time, I am afraid that the Chinese people did not have this awareness. As long as he can get back a batch of cultural relics looted from China by modern Japan, he is already quite satisfied.

"Apologize for committing suicide, do you want Iwasaki Zexue to come and make amends to you in person?" Lin Rong paced after coming indoors, and suddenly looked up and said, "You say, is it that the Iwasaki family is no longer able to fully control the Mitsubishi Foundation?"

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