Chapter 106: Asking for Votes

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This group of high-ranking officials of the Chinese Federation, who came to Japan some time ago, also took the opportunity to inspect Japan. In addition to the high-tech that they don't understand, some governors who know a little about agriculture see that the yield of wheat per mu in Japan is now 500 catties, which is twice as much as the main wheat-producing areas in the Central Plains.

The yield of rice is also more than 400 catties per mu, and the yield of many good paddy fields in the south is more than 300 catties per mu. Although Japan is still leviing a high agricultural tax of 30%, because of the increase in production, it still has more grain than the previous 60% agricultural tax.

In addition, the Japanese government's engineering teams from all over the country built houses and roads in villages for free, and exempted them from forced labor for thousands of years, and the supply and marketing cooperatives in various towns and villages provided all kinds of low-cost daily necessities and commodities.

Nowadays, a large number of seafood from the United Fishery are on the market, and every household working in the state-owned company can get a fish or a few catties of fish meat, even if you don't work in the state-owned company, it is not expensive to buy fish to eat, and the tuna sushi that looks very beautiful and eats well is only a penny a penny, and a pork bone broth Chinese ramen is a big bowl for five cents -- this is a penny in the real money age and not a penny in the inflationary era, and the gold content is still guaranteed. Besides, a piece of tuna sushi is nothing more than a dozen grams of rice, a dozen grams of fish meat, and a dozen grams of water.

Because the standard of living has improved a lot, the whole Japanese society is filled with a thriving spirit -- just like Germany in the early 20th century, the United States in the mid-20th century, and China in the 21st century.

Seeing Tokyo all the way from the school city, Li Hongzhang suddenly remembered one thing and asked the Japanese guide: "Aren't there beggars in Japan?" ”

The guide said, "There are no beggars in Japan today, and there are no relatives to support them if they have lost their ability to work. All of them are raised by the government in nursing homes in various places, and the government allocates grain and rice every year to ensure that they have enough rice to eat. Orphans, on the other hand, are admitted to kindergartens and schools, and after graduating from orphanage schools, they are arranged to work by the government. Nowadays begging is forbidden in Japan. ”

This is also the reason why Song Haiping and Lin Haiyang are not used to seeing Japanese beggars begging during the day and staying in five-star hotels at night. And the docile Japanese are the ones who have the best execution.

The Japanese have always carried out the orders of their superiors thoroughly, and they never dared to discount their work without asking why they were working. Today, including the government, the military, and state-owned enterprises in various places, the Japanese government supports nearly 4 million financial spenders, and their families, indirectly supporting 20 million people.

Today, Japan's population is just over 50 million, less than half of which is raised by the state, and most of the rest are truly agricultural. As long as the government can provide silver and rice to support people one day, it will not be afraid of social instability.

Hu Linyi remembered a question: "Is there enough food in Japan today?" ”

Tour guide: "There is a gap of 5 to 10 percent of rice every year, and when it is replaced by weight, it is 300 million to 600 million catties, and it can only be imported from Nanyang. Including fruit and cane sugar, which are to be imported. Now that the output of distant-water fisheries is increasing year by year, the government is persuading the private sector to change its diet so that everyone eats more meat and less rice. This will save some of the transport capacity and increase some of the government's food reserves.

Rice is always stored longer than fish, and today's tuna sushi is made up of two pieces of meat sandwiched between a ball of rice, whereas in the past, tuna sushi was a ball of rice topped with a piece of meat. ”

Today's Japan has a complete industrial chain, from ships, steam engines, artillery, to watches, pens, and pens, all of which are produced by special state-owned companies. However, the goods of state-owned enterprises must first meet domestic demand before selling some of the remaining in-demand goods to the international market, after all, Japan also needs to import some agricultural products.

The advantage of industrialization is that there are enough commodities to exchange, and in this exchange, in fact, the places that produce raw materials and low-grade agricultural products are very bad, but they have no technology and no talents to industrialize, so they can only be exploited by industrialized countries.

At that time, there were a lot of pigs in the Nanyang area, and a big iron nail produced in Guangzhou was worth a small pig, and many businessmen used the iron nail to exchange the piglets for the piglets in this area and made a fortune - and for the local aborigines, a litter of pigs can always give birth to ten or eight piglets, and to build an iron nail to dig iron ore first, and then smelt iron and make iron, which seems to take far more effort and capital than the time of raising pigs. Anyway, both sides think they've earned it.

And a small pig in the bilge, cast a net to catch some fish and shrimp to feed the pigs, and so on from the South Seas after a few months of return, hundreds of piglets will become hundreds of half-sized pigs, this mouthful of half-big pigs is not the value of a few nails, at least the value of dozens of hundreds of nails.

A few governors, you look at me, I look at you, but the gap is too big. These people feel that they are usually diligent and love the people, especially Li Hongzhang opened more than a dozen factories in Liangguang, and the full set of equipment imported from Japan can also make some money in international trade and domestic trade, but more silver is actually "floated" by his subordinates, Li Hongzhang also understands, but there is no way.

In this era, more people believe that when the water is clear, there are no fish, and no one understands why Japanese officials and officials are not so greedy for money.

In fact, they don't know that there are corrupt officials in Japan, but Japanese culture is a shameful culture, and if you can't do your job well, you have to apologize and meet people facelessly. Moreover, in the oriental culture, it is important to pay attention to the crooked upper beam and the lower beam, and since the beginning of Japan's reform, these two generations of leaders have been extremely upright and have a particularly strong sense of historical responsibility.

Besides, now that civil servants at all levels eat well, live well, and dress well, they are already very well treated in Japan, where there is nothing to enjoy, and they can't afford to put their whole family in for the sake of a little -- you know, today's Japanese officials are actually still a succession system, of course, the children of county magistrates may not be county magistrates, but starting from low-level civil servants, there are people above them, and if they can behave and do things, they will not be buried.

Everyone understands this rule, coupled with the fact that the standard of living has also been greatly improved, and there are almost no people who dare to blatantly embezzle.

And this word of greed is almost ubiquitous in the officialdom of the Chinese Federation outside Japan, from the door bag of silver to the filial piety of the new official after taking office, it is already a clear greed, and even some people have long calculated how many taels of silver can be obtained every year for the lack of an official position, and how much money is spent to operate and win this official position.

This is completely to be an official as a business, and if you are not greedy, it will be a hell.