The layout of the Matsutsurumu Maru restaurant is not much different from that of the same restaurant in Tokyo, Japan, with a dark blue curtain that covers only the upper half of the door under the signboard at the door, and the curtain is divided into three pieces, each with a white kanji written on it, which together is the name of the restaurant.

In ordinary areas of Tokyo, you can only lose money by simply opening a liquor store, and "Matsutsurumaru" is a mixed liquor store. On your left hand is a large counter with hot water in the sink farthest from the door, so you can warm sake at any time. The Japanese who worked parted their work at noon and evening, spent one or two copper coins to buy a porcelain pot of wine, sat on a stool outside the cabinet, drank hot and rested; If you are willing to spend an extra penny, you can buy a plate of oden or boiled broad beans to make a drink. If you get more than a dozen yuan, then you can buy a fish. But this is the price of more than a decade ago, and since 1918, prices have risen four or five times.

Every time the meal arrives, the inside of "Matsutsuru Maru" is lively, and Kita Yihui opens the curtain at this time and walks into the store of "Matsutsuru Maru".

At this time, half of the store was already seated with customers. Almost everyone has wine in front of them. Compared to other sake shops, no matter how much water the owner of "Matsutsurumaru" mixes into the sake, he manages to maintain the basic low price of alcoholic beverages, which can attract extra customers.

The amount of alcohol is poor, and after a few sips, I get drunk, lie on the counter and take a nap with my head on my forearm. If the amount of alcohol is good, sit at the table, hold a bowl of smuggled Chinese high-grade liquor bought by the shopkeeper, let everyone drink, and then drink slowly, after taking a sip, smacking the mouth on the top, and releasing the cool air very loudly below.

One of the few guys who ate dryly, holding a bowl of bean rice mixed with rice, took a big sip, because they were in a hurry, they didn't swallow a mouthful, their necks were thick and red, and they hurriedly asked the boss for a glass of water to flush the bean rice down their throats.

After returning from China, especially after spending so much time in the People's Party base, Kita found that the Japanese and Chinese had different drinking habits. Most Japanese people drink alcohol for the sake of drinking, and they don't have many dishes, so they just want to get drunk. Chinese also drink alcohol, but at least more than half of them use wine as a flavoring agent, first eating some food, and then drinking wine to moisturize. According to the Chinese proverb, it is "eat fragrant and drink spicy".

As soon as this wine is drunk, the atmosphere is lively. Almost everyone speaks, either the weather, or the latest news. Of course, there is no shortage of complaints. The one who was drinking and deflating was a rickshaw puller. Because the deflation sound was too loud, it attracted the attention of others. Seeing that everyone's eyes fell on him, he complained to everyone with a stiff face, how he had not stopped under the sun from early in the morning to now, and his body was already wet and dry, dry and wet, I don't know how many times!

Most of the rest of the people were gossiping with each other, and when they heard these two sentences, they were immediately silent for a while, and then they all remembered the grievances of the day like a bird had blown up its nest, and they all wanted to tell everyone. Even those who were eating bean rice mixed with rice also spread the gap in their mouths that could mobilize their tongues, and while swallowing and talking, even the tendons on their heads jumped: "Is it better to pull the moon?!" I haven't had a tooth from two o'clock to now! It was said that Ginza to Sakurada Gate - hiccup! - I've been back and forth for three times! I'm fucking tired of blowing up my asshole and deflating it all my might! He glanced around at everyone, nodded, and stuffed another mouthful of bean rice into his mouth.

Kita listened quietly, but did not participate in these discussions. Even in Wuhan, China's most economically developed country, such scenes are not uncommon. Every worker is quite hard, and in order to gather all the forces to develop heavy industry, the BJP can be described as "murderous" in the economic sphere under the direct control of the state. Including Chen Ke, there are no capital dividends other than wages, and everyone is working, laboring, laboring. When the student survey team led by Kita Ikki analyzed the Japanese economy, the latest consensus was that Japan's investment has accumulated a huge backlog of consumption in the past decade. Compared with Japan, the People's Party's investment is not inferior, if not surpassed.

Thinking of the research group he led, Kita Yihui felt a burst of pride and relief. If we want to carry out a social revolution, we must first know what the state of society is. Although college students from relatively high backgrounds have all kinds of young childishness and immaturity, they have the added advantage of being significantly broader than the general public.

If you want to have knowledge, you can only rely on money and the social environment of innate inheritance if you don't consider your personal qualifications. Kenshoku University was a "new school", and when it was founded in 1900, it did not even have its own school building, so it simply borrowed the campus of Tokyo University of Political Science and Law. Many of the students in the school are those who did not get into Todai, Waseda, or Keio University. Young people naturally connect everywhere during the summer vacation, and gradually, students from these famous schools appear in the social investigation team led by Kita Yihui.

The ruling class of each country generally has a level of knowledge and ability beyond the ordinary people, and when the ability and organization of the ruling class are weaker than that of the people, the regime will reach its own end of its own life. In 1923, the students who were able to have their own leisure in the summer were not from low backgrounds. At this time, poor students are trying to help their families work, and it is impossible for them to have the opportunity to engage in social surveys that do not make money and have to pay for them.

The curriculum of the People's Party cadre school is intended for the ruling class and management, and students from middle and upper classes feel close to it when they hear it. The experience accumulated by the People's Party in government affairs is an eye-opener for students who lack practical practice.

When he was young, he had to do shady business to accumulate funds for the revolution, and now he simply requires the students to pay for the participation in the activities in addition to their own food expenses. Of course, each group will be able to share a printed copy of the summarized manuscript. Some of the students had a printing shop in their own home, and they negotiated a business at a favorable price, and professional typesetting workers were responsible for a lot of printing work. This fee is not cheap for the average Japanese family, but all the students who participated in the social survey easily took out the money.

With the Chinese Revolution as a model, Kita Yihui's development so far has been quite smooth. Fortunately, the students understood the difference between capital and money, although Kita Ikki was still not satisfied with the students' performance.

And it's no wonder that the students are not to blame. Chen Ke dared to ridicule foreign countries, for example, the cadre school quoted Chen Ke as ridiculing foreign countries for "only economics, no political economy". This ridicule is evident in Japan, where students may have some notion of economics but no knowledge of political economy. Even for college students who come out of business school, their expertise is nothing more than how to serve the business sector. Comparing the Japanese university curriculum with the political curriculum of the People's Party's party schools and schools at all levels, Kita Kazuki clearly feels that Japanese universities are cultivating high-level workers, rather than the People's Party's idea of cultivating the future ruling class through education.

Bei Yihui can only rely on his own record of the political economy course of the party school, as well as his own understanding of the two knives of "materialist historicism" to give lectures to students. Even so, university students still find Kita's knowledge unfathomable.

Looking at these ordinary Japanese laborers in front of him, who are only thinking about how to solve the problem of tomorrow's livelihood, Kita Ikki has an irrepressible sense of superiority in his heart, and he also has a sense of anxiety. Just wait a few more months, a few months. At that time, Kita Ikki was able to have some manpower to promote revolutionary propaganda among the people.

Studying the experience of the People's Party, Kita Ikki knew very well that it was not possible to directly propagate to the people what "Capital" and the socialist system were, and that if we wanted to lead the Japanese people to rise up in revolution, we must have a revolutionary method suitable for Japan. To put it more bluntly, there must be a grassroots level. And this grassroots is neither those college students, nor the gang of workers in front of them. If you want to gain control at the grassroots level in Japan, you must have the cooperation of some people. This "Matsutsurumu" liquor store is one of the "anti-government salons" recommended by Haneda Sei to Kita. The real grassroots people are in this area.

After the busiest meal, the laborers went home to rest, and the next guests were pure drinking. These people are mainly soldiers and skilled workers, and their voices are far less loud than those of laborers, and their expressions are much more solemn or fierce. More obviously, most of these people have a fish on the table, a few dishes, and the content of the discussion is as "high-class" as the food.

Without exception, these people scolded the government, and some of them believed that as long as the XX, XXXX, XXX in the government were removed, the Japanese government would be able to embark on a more correct path. Or they may think that certain institutions of the Japanese government are the root cause of the calamity to the country and the people. At a higher level, they can also talk about certain policies and see how they are harming Japan's interests.

In the eyes of the current Japanese ruling class, these people are undoubtedly "anti-government". If it was before, Kita Yihui would have held this view, but now he doesn't think so.

Scolding the government and opposing the government are not the same thing at all, and according to the clear criteria for dividing cadres in the People's Party Party School, being anti-government is anti-system, and scolding the government is because they feel that the government can do a better job, and they scold because they feel disappointed. Judging by the standards of the People's Party, these people are actually staunch supporters of the Japanese government.

For example, several servicemen who came here today bitterly denounced the deterioration of the economic situation, the incompetence of the government and the corruption of party politics, and occasionally criticized the current weakness of the War Department. But the next words fully show their attitude.

"Each great power either has a vast colony or a vast territory. Japan is a small country with few resources. So what we need is a more effective approach. First of all, the Koreans and Taiwanese should be killed, and the Japanese people should obtain the land and the right to develop local minerals. Only in this way can everyone have something to eat. ”

"That's true! The garrison troops not only have to spend money, but also maintain law and order in the area. The resistance in the Korean region was extremely strong, and it was better to use it to destroy the Koreans than to defend it with troops and military expenses. There is no need to leave the North Koreans! ”

"Now that Japan's own unemployment is so bad, and as a result, so many Koreans are coming to work in Japan, the government is betraying the country! There is no need to send North Koreans back to North Korea at all. ”

One by one, these soldiers were filled with righteous indignation, and while fiercely attacking the government, they did not forget to offer advice.

For these "strategies", Kita Yihui does not think that there is a profound value for reference. The attitude of internal oppression, external plunder, and external resolution of internal contradictions is nothing but the essence of imperialism. It must be admitted that these young officers felt the oppression of the Japanese government and felt the pain of being oppressed. Yet they remain staunch supporters of the Japanese government, and even though these young soldiers may have the courage to bring down the current government, they only want to establish a new government that "more effectively implements the imperialist nature of the current government." They are against their own oppression, not against oppression.

In the Communist Manifesto, Marx said that the bourgeoisie compelled everyone to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; It compels everyone to impose so-called civilization on their own, that is, to become bourgeoisie. In a word, it creates a world for itself in its own image.

Japan is undoubtedly already a country with a truly capitalist system, and the perception of this country is completely based on the ideas created by the capitalist system. In other words, you must become a bourgeoisie! This perception of Japan's current situation cannot but make Kita Ikki feel a kind of disappointment.

Kita Yihui couldn't help but think of the words in "Diary of a Madman".

I want to eat people, but I am afraid of being eaten by others, so I look at each other with very suspicious eyes. ……

I went to this thought, and I was relieved to do things, walk, eat and sleep, how comfortable. It's just a threshold, a juncture. They are fathers, sons, brothers, husbands, wives, friends, teachers, students, enemies, and people who don't know each other, all forming a group, exhorting each other, holding each other in, and refusing to take this step even if they die.